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actualize

[ak-choo-uh-lahyz] / ˈæk tʃu əˌlaɪz /
VERB
make real
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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“Now how do I actualize it? How do I make it a film? And that’s the exciting and scary part. How do we make magic feel cultural?”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

It is always worth the effort to actualize them.

From Slate May 13, 2023

Hylomorphism the idea that being is composed of matter and form that causes the being to actualize its potential.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

At the dinner table, I hoped that my silent tribute would actualize my strength.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2022

Cognizant of these, she can responsibly select what knowledge to disperse to protect individuals and to continually shape and conceptually actualize the nursing profession.

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson

What Refik’s work actualizes is flying through that dark galaxy of latent space and saying, ‘Nothing exists here, but what might exist here?’

From Washington Post Feb. 15, 2023

This is simply further proof that 2022 is when Google actualizes years of laying the groundwork for a major wearables push.

From The Verge Apr. 25, 2022

And morality, in that it is the realization of an ideal which is perfect, is the process whereby the absolute good actualizes itself in man.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones

Finally, it is pointed out that since existence is the actuality of essence, the existence which actualizes a substance cannot be identical with that which actualizes an accident.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

The abstract concept of existence is rendered definite and determinate by the essence which it actualizes.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

Your ambition, your agency, and your will, amplified and actualized by a dedicated, symbiotic intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 12, 2026

Whether selfless unity can overcome a history of selfish disunity — actualized in the face of a common “threat” from within — will be the question of the day.

From Salon Jan. 12, 2025

“That’s all fine and good, but what isn’t is that Peach is absolutely amazing and perfect in every way, completely actualized, and needs to learn nothing in the film,” Mr. Carrick says in the review.

From Washington Times Jun. 12, 2023

The suit was designed by Ryan Meinerding at Marvel and actualized by Carter, who made some tweaks to ensure it looked right on a female body.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2022

We had not seen any of these things actualized as yet, but we should do so in the future.

From ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London by `Abdu'l-Bahá

More importantly, we ceded the idea that effective politics are a vehicle for connecting people to one another in service of actualizing a higher ideal of our lives and our surroundings.

From Slate Aug. 25, 2024

It won for choreography, honoring Sergio Trujillo’s extraordinary work of actualizing the Temptations’ silky-smooth moves and stylishly synchronized swagger.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2022

“In other words, actualizing a just and equitable educational system.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 14, 2022

Previously theoretical concerns about nuclear technology were actualizing as undeniable threats to humanity.

From The Verge Aug. 23, 2017

The action of the instrumental cause with them consists only in actualizing or manifesting what was already existent in a potential form in the cause.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta




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