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internalize

[in-tur-nl-ahyz] / ɪnˈtɜr nlˌaɪz /
VERB
incorporate within one's self
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It feels inevitable that I’ve started to internalize its ticks, even the most infamous ones, like incessant em-dashing and overreliance on the “It’s not x but y” structure.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

The result, she said, is that consumers may internalize economic anxiety more intensely than they did during earlier periods of high inflation.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

Such adjustments can take months to internalize, which is why specific drills are prescribed to reinforce changes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Bird designed tools to help the kids budget, and holds weekly money meetings to check in and reinforce the ideas she hopes her children, now 11, 9 and 8 years old, will internalize.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 4, 2026

A good way to internalize the rhythm is to by first learning the rhyme, then adding the body percussion.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Guided by previous research of spider brains, the scientists uncovered evidence of a "waste canal system" in the human brain that internalizes waste from healthy neurons.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024

He only internalizes the doubt enough to let it fire him up.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

It’s how the system internalizes within myself and makes me hate myself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2022

Selah may act contrite, but this lecture disputedly empowers her, and Simone's hypnotic performance shows how Selah both embraces — and cracks — under the pressure she internalizes.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2020

So in his family of origin man internalizes ideas of "right-wrong," "appropriate-inappropriate," "expected-unexpected."

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson

It’s not shameful to fight, an idea many of us have internalized, she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"Rigid and persistent symptoms, such as paranoid ideas or an internalized critical voice, may be stable but not very flexible prediction models," says Stänicke.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026

Though Village People singer and songwriter Victor Willis has denied the queer interpretation of the song many times over, one of the people who hasn’t internalized that historical correction is Trump himself.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

I internalized my mother’s distress, experiencing her anxiety as my own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

“And so, I don’t know. I think I internalized all of that.”

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson

“But the harsh lesson here is that people are really bad at internalizing exponentials—even people inside OpenAI.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

“It ignored the young patients who would be in her clinic, exposed to her speech, and susceptible to internalizing ideas that may scar them for life,” they wrote.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2026

“For Nvidia, the long-term risk isn’t just rival chips, but key customers like Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and others steadily internalizing more of the value chain,” Dalfovo said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

“So thank you for being that unknowing inspiration behind the scenes. I was internalizing all of that love and putting it into that record.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025

The song B-I-N-G-O is an excellent example in which to practice internalizing the pitch since the singer has to clap the rhythm and silently think the pitch in their head.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin


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