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verbalize

[vur-buh-lahyz] / ˈvɜr bəˌlaɪz /


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The irony is that the strongest parts of the book are attempts to verbalize what is elsewhere inexpressible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 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

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

“Then try to work with me and I’ll see if I can’t verbalize it a little for them.”

From "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle

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

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

Well, not quite . . . it’s writer Jamie Rhonheimer who verbalized the source of the first schism within the “Star Wars” congregation.

From Salon ● May 25, 2024

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

In between myriad jokes, he shrugged off this stereotype as an understandable thought best not verbalized.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

Hearing her fear verbalized by Maddie, that her friendship with James was over for good, had the unexpected effect of making Emily realize how silly it sounded.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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

And theater involves more than one “mode”: verbalizing, while making a gesture or expression, which research shows boosts brain activity.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2023

“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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