externalize
verb (used with object)
to make external; embody in an outward form.
externalized
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past participleof externalize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof externalize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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This is the price tag of externalized costs and public subsidies.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2023
That trick relies on incalculable losses that can be externalized from the financial arithmetic, but not from the world itself.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2022
The son isn’t around, save the one behind the camera, a curious and affecting blend of narratively externalized guilt and filmmaking devotion that only deepens as the reality of her situation sinks in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
But, Dargis wrote, Pitt’s “soulful, nuanced performance — which becomes incrementally more externalized and visible, as if McBride were shedding a false face — holds the film together even when it starts to fray.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
Here was her humanity externalized, and all her longing—for freedom, from disgust, from the confines of her metal cage.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
