concretize
Americanverb (used with object)
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By 1979, the Dead Kennedys frontman, Jello Biafra, ran for mayor as the only progressive alternative to Feinstein, helping the punk concretize San Francisco’s reputation as a progressive political and cultural city.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2020
At the time, emancipated African Americans were eager for education, she said, convinced it would allow them to concretize their newfound freedom.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2020
I wonder how you concretize what you’re saying and help folks who are struggling to understand.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2019
It’s also notably graceful in its ability to concretize the abstract and loosen the concrete.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2012
Ms. Posenenske’s objects concretize Duchamp’s idea that the viewer completes the artwork.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2010
Meloni called for the accord to be concretized and the promised EU funds transferred to Tunis.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
What does it mean, then, to view buildings not just as a concretized form of money but concretized beliefs about money?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
That last idea concretized in a mystery surrounding an underground society revealed in season 2 known as the Order of X, personified in the form of the series’ all-seeing narrator played by Giancarlo Esposito.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2019
The word “pogrom,” which Kishinev concretized, “was believed to capture accurately centuries of Jewish vulnerability, the deep well of Jewish misery,” Zipperstein writes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2018
People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
From Time Magazine Archive
“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
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