verbalize
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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
Carolina at the window, feeling her scars, wanted to verbalize a memory, but couldn’t.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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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
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
"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
Those flickering observations, verbalized or not, can set the parameters of social engagement and hierarchy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
In between myriad jokes, he shrugged off this stereotype as an understandable thought best not verbalized.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
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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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
Without verbalizing a direct answer to the question.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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
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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