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actualization

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

noun

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

  2. Psychology. self-actualization.


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Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of actualization

First recorded in 1815–25; actualize + -ation


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“In so many ways, it felt like the actualization of a lot of these more private hungers and more private desires for sound and experience and collectivity,” she said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

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

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 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

And such is the benignant Providence which will bear the Practical Christian Republic onward through all its struggles to the actualization of its sublime destiny.

From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

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