verbalize
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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
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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
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
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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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