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
“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
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
The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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
The ensemble feels like a real, fractured unit that shares unspoken arrangements and lifelong knowledge of one another that doesn’t need to be verbalized to be understood.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 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
Landi verbalized the objection at least one more time before the 60-second limit had expired.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
Those flickering observations, verbalized or not, can set the parameters of social engagement and hierarchy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
On my end, I realized something I'd never quite verbalized before: this had nothing to do with me.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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
And that’s precisely what art history is — taking the visual and verbalizing it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
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
“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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