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internalize

[in-tur-nl-ahyz] / ɪnˈtɜr nlˌaɪz /
VERB
incorporate within one's self
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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

“They are unavoidable. You cannot internalize them and let them chip away at your self-worth.”

From MarketWatch Feb. 28, 2026

This is what many women will internalize, and they will behave accordingly.

From Slate Sep. 25, 2025

I hope that George doesn’t internalize her scare tactics.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

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

Jean-Baptiste plays a woman who doles out misery and also, crucially, internalizes it, giving the character a humanity and sadness that’s absolutely transcendent.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2024

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

From Seattle Times Feb. 8, 2024

His speeches and body language are commanding as he internalizes all of his guilt and his tyranny surges.

From Salon Dec. 25, 2021

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

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson

The young singers have clearly internalized its principles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

This movie’s nail-biting, sorrowful power comes from what internalized destruction looks like.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

More than a decade into his political ascent, it’s remarkable how thoroughly the lesson of Donald Trump has been internalized by the apparatus around him.

From Salon May 18, 2026

And we’re all learning, in real time, what happens when the resulting fury is internalized at a mass scale.

From Slate May 1, 2026

As much as I found Robbie to be snippy and inflexible, I’d also internalized her devotion to rigor.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

“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

Europe is moving toward internalizing security costs and building fiscal capacity.

From MarketWatch Feb. 17, 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

The study found that suboptimal learners, who were seemingly less efficient at internalizing the task at the early stages of learning, experienced an accelerated accuracy improvement while performing the task when receiving atDCS.

From Science Daily Nov. 27, 2024

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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