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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“It wasn’t as much solving this like, master plan or whatever. It was moreso helping him actualize the things that he was seeing.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025
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
For example, if the purpose of human life is to develop meaningful relationships and to actualize one’s potential, then morality is based on the virtues that allow someone to achieve these ends.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Would not this, at last, actualize the Pauline dream, of each single citizen as a member of the Body of Christ?
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn
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