verbalize
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He’s just bracingly honest and notoriously wobbly when asked to verbalize the significance of everything and anything — from his poetically dense lyricism to the whole of his revered music career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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
It took many months for him to be able to verbalize the realization he had.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2025
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
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 Piper, H. Beam
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
Landi verbalized the objection at least one more time before the 60-second limit had expired.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
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
Sabbatini bent over his SmartDraw pad and sketched out a molecular structure that described the chemical reaction Nicole had just verbalized.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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
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
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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