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
Like a wounded boy desperate for an embrace but who refuses to verbalize his need, he wanders penniless through town, a handsome flesh-and-blood specter in a dirty white suit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
The trauma was often too much for them to verbalize.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
But by forcing you to verbalize that memory—to explain yourself—I separate you from those instincts.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
“Mr. Morris never verbalized an apology, and he was given multiple opportunities,” Ortega said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
Well, not quite . . . it’s writer Jamie Rhonheimer who verbalized the source of the first schism within the “Star Wars” congregation.
From Salon ● May 25, 2024
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
On my end, I realized something I'd never quite verbalized before: this had nothing to do with me.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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Once I started verbalizing my need for alone time, and stopped tiptoeing around his feelings, I found that our relationship started to improve — both on vacations and in day-to-day life too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 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
So have anger and a thirst for vengeance, which the country’s leaders are verbalizing in language that critics in Israel say often crosses the line into incitement.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
“I can’t emphasize how hard that is for little people who may not be verbalizing letter sounds correctly — those are all just huge components to reading instruction,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2022
“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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