actualize
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You must have the capacity to put these ideas into action, to actualize them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
“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
But they nevertheless actualize Laura's words: Choosing flesh over immortality is to live and die, too.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2023
It is always worth the effort to actualize them.
From Slate ● May 13, 2023
You’ve made it possible for us to actualize our greatest dream.
From The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick
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
Thus if we conceive existence as a perfection it is restricted by the finite nature of the potentiality which it actualizes.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
How one actualizes the result of thinking, and being authentic with one's self recalls what Jung said about art.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
It actualizes unity, spirituality, and eternity in the environment; it frees and enhances the life of the self.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Your ambition, your agency, and your will, amplified and actualized by a dedicated, symbiotic intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Dorothy belts “Over the Rainbow” underneath newly actualized bluebirds and an impressively ominous sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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
To suggest so implies that women weren't real before they got pregnant, weren't actualized or already complete.
From Salon ● May 14, 2023
It does provide, for all nurses, a true sense of direction that can be actualized by each unique nurse through creative human dialogue.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
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
Thinking about Henry “Box” Brown’s methodology, the box as a vehicle for him to get closer to actualizing his own freedom on his own terms.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
“In other words, actualizing a just and equitable educational system.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Supervsn is actualizing these things that don’t currently exist and having the ability to bring them to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
It is manifest, therefore, that they endow purely potential being with the power of actualizing itself.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
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