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verbalize

[vur-buh-lahyz] / ˈvɜr bəˌlaɪz /


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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

In a trade that is preposterous to even verbalize, much less actually complete, the Lakers sent superstar Anthony Davis to the Dallas Mavericks in a three-team deal that brought them even bigger superstar Luka Doncic.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 2, 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

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

Justin Nelson, one of the attorneys representing Dominion, verbalized his concerns.

From Salon Feb. 9, 2023

In between myriad jokes, he shrugged off this stereotype as an understandable thought best not verbalized.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2022

It was as if he believed that they shared a series of intrinsic jokes that did not need to be verbalized.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Without verbalizing a direct answer to the question.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 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

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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