verbalize
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“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
The auteur’s humbleness, as well as his proclivity to deploy vibrant music to verbalize what his reserved characters can’t articulate, remain the signatures of his masterful body of work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 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
One of them actually verbalizes this, but it’s pretty far into the game,
From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2021
When Young Master Johnson verbalizes his existential crisis, it’s a cringer: “There are no courses in college about how to be a hardworking, productive rich person.”
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2016
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
Those flickering observations, verbalized or not, can set the parameters of social engagement and hierarchy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
But it was the first time I verbalized the crux of why I struggled with intimate relationships — I had been stuck in one energy pattern in my body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2022
On my end, I realized something I'd never quite verbalized before: this had nothing to do with me.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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
As one-third of the rap group Migos, Quavious Marshall rose to chart-topping prominence in the last decade by verbalizing hip-hop’s stickiest choruses and most satisfyingly inane ad-libs, mostly extemporaneously.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
Most Date Lab participants when pressed have a difficult time verbalizing why the spark didn’t manifest.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 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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