actualize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make actual or real
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to represent realistically
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Origin of actualize
Example Sentences
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As Hill described it last month, they weren’t so much “solving this master plan” with Sasaki as they were “helping him actualize the things” he was trying to do in his delivery.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2025
And that is how people who should know better, like my colleague, can confidently dismiss concerns that these doom-filled stories might actualize.
From Salon • Jul. 21, 2024
“Interstate conflict is only intensifying, and data is the first shot across the bow for how to actualize that conflict,” she added.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2024
It is always worth the effort to actualize them.
From Slate • May 13, 2023
Look at the Piltdown skull: reconstruct the person or creature whose brain that skull contained, and actualize the directions in which his imperious instincts, his vaguely conscious will and desire, were pressing into life.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn
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