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verbalize

[vur-buh-lahyz] / ˈvɜr bəˌlaɪz /


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But Elliot also has no idea how to verbalize his desires.

From Salon Jul. 31, 2026

“I can be more daring in English. I can say the words or verbalize the thoughts with much less inhibition, because I am not as emotionally attached,” he explains.

From Los Angeles Times 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

The trauma was often too much for them to verbalize.

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 2023

I had no energy left to verbalize some First Lady-like excuse or even wave to my friends.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

At regular intervals he volunteers context, explains what is spoken and verbalizes what is not — he essentially dispenses audio footnotes.

From New York Times May 17, 2022

One of them actually verbalizes this, but it’s pretty far into the game,

From Washington Times Apr. 14, 2021

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

"Hey Congresspeople! Beware! Hell hath no fury like a . . . scorned," he adds, making a cutesy little face where one guesses an expletive would have otherwise been verbalized.

From Salon Dec. 15, 2023

In “Happiness Falls,” she makes it clear that joy needn’t always be verbalized.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2023

She refuses to believe her father can find happiness with anyone other than her mother and has verbalized this to others.

From Washington Post Mar. 22, 2023

Do you feel a little better now that we’ve verbalized some things that you were unsure of or unwilling to talk about?

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper

If you need help verbalizing your rights, show the agent a Red Card that helps explain your rights.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 22, 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

And theater involves more than one “mode”: verbalizing, while making a gesture or expression, which research shows boosts brain activity.

From Washington Post Jan. 10, 2023

But they did not talk about it, as though verbalizing it would make Baby’s death imminent, until the morning she sat watching Baby sleep while Odenigbo got dressed for work.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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