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verbalize

[vur-buh-lahyz] / ˈvɜr bəˌlaɪz /


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It’s really hard to verbalize how I am feeling at this point.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2025

“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

As soon as a child is able to verbalize their identity, they are capable of knowing it.

From Salon Oct. 17, 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

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

In “Happiness Falls,” she makes it clear that joy needn’t always be verbalized.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 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

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

From Salon Feb. 9, 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

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

“There’s a lot of accountability to verbalizing what you’re seeing, what you’re thinking,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 4, 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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