externalize
verb (used with object)
to make external; embody in an outward form.
externalizes
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present tense formof externalize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Phthalate exposure is just one way the plastics industry externalizes harms.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
Gorbis also developed a “crooked mirror” that exaggerates patients’ distortions, which externalizes the distorted self-image.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023
As Irene’s tension mounts, the film externalizes it through other symbols: a loudly ticking grandfather clock, a pot of water boiling over and even her breaking a teapot at a midday social in her home.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
I realized this past summer that this friend is self-absorbed and externalizes blame, and that I tend to feel drained in her presence.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2017
The wrong belief which externalizes as sickness is the belief that some secondary cause, which is really only a condition, is a primary cause.
From The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward
