actualize

American  

[ak-choo-uh-lahyz] / ˈæk tʃu əˌlaɪz /

especially British, actualise

verb (used with object)

actualized, actualizing

1. to make actual or real; turn into action or fact.

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actualize British  

/ ˈæktʃʊəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to make actual or real

2. to represent realistically

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Other Word Forms

• actualization noun

Etymology

Origin of actualize

First recorded in 1800–10; actual + -ize

Example Sentences

“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

But they nevertheless actualize Laura's words: Choosing flesh over immortality is to live and die, too.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2023

It is always worth the effort to actualize them.

From Slate • May 13, 2023

One of the reasons fitness culture becomes an American export globally is because it’s such a perfect arena to actualize these fantasies about self-fashioning that we have.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2023

Moreover when the nature itself acts immanently, the term of such action remaining within the agent itself to actualize or perfect it, some passive potentiality of the agent is being actualized.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter