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
So while Tartakovsky’s samurai is a man who only says as much as he must, Spear doesn’t verbalize his thoughts at all.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 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
The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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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 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
"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
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
There’s just a closeness between two young women that cannot be verbalized, especially in the world they live in.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
How had she so quickly, so succinctly, verbalized everything he was feeling?
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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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
“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
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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