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actualization

American  
[ak-choo-uh-luh-zey-shuhn] / ˌæk tʃu ə ləˈzeɪ ʃən /

noun

  • actualizations
    plural
  1. the act or process of actualizing.

  2. Psychology. self-actualization.


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Etymology

Origin of actualization

First recorded in 1815–25; actualize + -ation

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My brain wants to make sense of all that, though, so it keeps trying to find order and actualization.

From Salon Oct. 10, 2022

“While the market had a good sense of the potential trends, the actualization of those expectations did have an impact.”

From Washington Post Apr. 22, 2022

I am a primary care physician, a person with a uterus, a sister, a daughter of immigrants, an actualization of the American dream.

From Seattle Times Dec. 10, 2021

“Code for America’s mission is to build technology by and for people, and for me unionizing is the actualization of that mission internally,” they explain.

From The Verge Aug. 4, 2021

This individuality existed more immediately in the Germanic race, which nevertheless, on account of its nature, formed first in Christianity its true actualization.

From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett

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