verbalize
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But Elliot also has no idea how to verbalize his desires.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
“If you’re able to intellectualize that information and verbalize, this isn’t for you,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
In a trade that is preposterous to even verbalize, much less actually complete, the Lakers sent superstar Anthony Davis to the Dallas Mavericks in a three-team deal that brought them even bigger superstar Luka Doncic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2025
The trauma was often too much for them to verbalize.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
“Then try to work with me and I’ll see if I can’t verbalize it a little for them.”
From "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
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When he talks, Parsons seems to be unraveling his thoughts as he verbalizes them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
At one point while recording notes, in a moment of particularly on-the-nose screenwriting, Kelley verbalizes “Someone could write a book” and off he dashes to the library with his German interpreter, a baby-faced U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
One of them actually verbalizes this, but it’s pretty far into the game,
From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2021
The philosopher Alva Noë, in voice-over, verbalizes questions that might be going through an audience member’s head, like: “Why are they doing that?”
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
He verbalizes it, and the sound of his own voice re-enforces it in him.
From Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper
And it is, of course, odd that they verbalized these fears by simply importing wholesale a hacky discourse from the U.S.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025
Justin Nelson, one of the attorneys representing Dominion, verbalized his concerns.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2023
Those flickering observations, verbalized or not, can set the parameters of social engagement and hierarchy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
But it was the first time I verbalized the crux of why I struggled with intimate relationships — I had been stuck in one energy pattern in my body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2022
It was as if he believed that they shared a series of intrinsic jokes that did not need to be verbalized.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Because talk therapy is a process of verbalizing symptoms to help process emotions, Pathomrit often spends extra time educating her clients and modeling what that looks like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
Only 81 out of the 100 survey respondents provided a definition, perhaps due to the challenge of verbalizing a working description.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
And that’s precisely what art history is — taking the visual and verbalizing it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
He was verbalizing it, that I have his full support and that we were going to figure this thing out, to right the ship, so to speak.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
“Luck,” Jesse said, never one for excessive verbalizing about feelings.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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