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
The chimera, as Diel writes, externalizes a certain danger, “in the form of a monster encountered by chance,” that “chimerical enemy” that “every man carries secretly within himself ... the devouring monster.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
The genre externalizes our anxieties and allows us to exorcise their manifestations onscreen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2017
He externalizes blame and sees himself as wronged.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2016
The Greeks trusted to nature, trusted the natural propensity of the mind, trusted language above all, in so far as it naturally externalizes thought.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
