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verbalize

[vur-buh-lahyz] / ˈvɜr bəˌlaɪz /


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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

“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

Guilt and shame can make these experiences difficult to verbalize or talk about, Mathai said.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2025

The trauma was often too much for them to verbalize.

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 2023

Carolina at the window, feeling her scars, wanted to verbalize a memory, but couldn’t.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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 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

“Mr. Morris never verbalized an apology, and he was given multiple opportunities,” Ortega said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2024

"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

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

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

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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