actualize

Example Sentences

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It is always worth the effort to actualize them.

From Slate • May 13, 2023

One of the reasons fitness culture becomes an American export globally is because it’s such a perfect arena to actualize these fantasies about self-fashioning that we have.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2023

Aristotle proposed the theory of hylomorphism, which states that form is actually present in the material world and responsible for causing the acorn to actualize its potential as an oak tree.

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

These and many other examples warn us that only by such a sustained and double movement can the man of the Spirit actualize all his possibilities and do his real work.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn