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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

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

I’ve had to learn to, like, verbalize things and teach the game … through verbalization.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

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

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

In “Happiness Falls,” she makes it clear that joy needn’t always be verbalized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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

How had she so quickly, so succinctly, verbalized everything he was feeling?

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

“I can’t emphasize how hard that is for little people who may not be verbalizing letter sounds correctly — those are all just huge components to reading instruction,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 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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