verbalize
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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
Forward Jake LaRavia said in the locker room that there felt like a “disconnect” on the team, but couldn’t verbalize more about how things had turned so suddenly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 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
But by forcing you to verbalize that memory—to explain yourself—I separate you from those instincts.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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 H. Beam Piper
The psychology, however, needs to be more boldly theatricalized, and for Parks that inevitably means verbalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
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
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
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Once I started verbalizing my need for alone time, and stopped tiptoeing around his feelings, I found that our relationship started to improve — both on vacations and in day-to-day life too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 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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