actualize
Americanverb (used with object)
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actualizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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actualized,
past participle, past
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actualizing
present participle
verb
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to make actual or real
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to represent realistically
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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actualizesimple
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actualizessimple
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have actualizedperfect
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has actualizedperfect
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am actualizingprogressive
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are actualizingprogressive
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is actualizingprogressive
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have been actualizingperfect progressive
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has been actualizingperfect progressive
Past
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actualizedsimple
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had actualizedperfect
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was actualizingprogressive
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were actualizingprogressive
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had been actualizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of actualize
Example Sentences
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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
It is always worth the effort to actualize them.
From Slate ● May 13, 2023
I haven’t figured that out yet when pitching a show or getting venture capitalists to give me tens of millions of dollars to actualize it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
Aristotle proposed the theory of hylomorphism, which states that form is actually present in the material world and responsible for causing the acorn to actualize its potential as an oak tree.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Ceremonial deeds are used to actualize free contacts with Reality.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
What Refik’s work actualizes is flying through that dark galaxy of latent space and saying, ‘Nothing exists here, but what might exist here?’
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
This is simply further proof that 2022 is when Google actualizes years of laying the groundwork for a major wearables push.
From The Verge ● Apr. 25, 2022
Thus if we conceive existence as a perfection it is restricted by the finite nature of the potentiality which it actualizes.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
And morality, in that it is the realization of an ideal which is perfect, is the process whereby the absolute good actualizes itself in man.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones
The abstract concept of existence is rendered definite and determinate by the essence which it actualizes.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
These “mere mortals” are “so often mistaken” about actualized strivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Now that it’s actualized, I’m just excited to share it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
“That’s all fine and good, but what isn’t is that Peach is absolutely amazing and perfect in every way, completely actualized, and needs to learn nothing in the film,” Mr. Carrick says in the review.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
Rose's best season was when she went to Paris, leaving behind her husband with his learned helplessness and grandchildren in order to find herself, to latently be actualized.
From Salon ● May 13, 2023
What is shown in the pictures upon a preceding page has been actualized in many homes.
From With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul by Sylvanus Stall
More importantly, we ceded the idea that effective politics are a vehicle for connecting people to one another in service of actualizing a higher ideal of our lives and our surroundings.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024
Thinking about Henry “Box” Brown’s methodology, the box as a vehicle for him to get closer to actualizing his own freedom on his own terms.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
Where are you now in your thinking about actualizing or putting this out in the world?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
“In other words, actualizing a just and equitable educational system.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
In central calm, far within the struggle and vex of the rolling elements, throned in its own serene realm of law, lives the free, conscious soul, and will live eternally, actualizing its potentialities.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
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