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verbalize

[vur-buh-lahyz] / ˈvɜr bəˌlaɪz /


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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

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

I had no energy left to verbalize some First Lady-like excuse or even wave to my friends.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

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

Because talk therapy is a process of verbalizing symptoms to help process emotions, Pathomrit often spends extra time educating her clients and modeling what that looks like.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 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

And that’s precisely what art history is — taking the visual and verbalizing it.

From New York Times Mar. 6, 2024

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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