concretize
Americanverb (used with object)
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In June, a coalition of government agencies unveiled the National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics, that aims to concretize and make actionable the goal set in 2015.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2024
“She wrote these wonderful books of heightened reality and magical worlds where she would concretize metaphor.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
What distinguished the memories of Sept. 11, when compared with ordinary autobiographical memories, was the extreme confidence that people had developed in their altered remembrances, which by the first anniversary had begun to concretize.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
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
I wonder how you concretize what you’re saying and help folks who are struggling to understand.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2019
It’s part anti-capitalist satire, with something to say about food deserts, for-profit hospitals and public utilities; part sweet comedy, with love interest Olivia Washington as a fast-food worker with super speed; and part concretized metaphor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Meloni called for the accord to be concretized and the promised EU funds transferred to Tunis.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 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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