Example Sentences

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Phthalate exposure is just one way the plastics industry externalizes harms.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024

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

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

It is the expression of "inner states" but it externalizes itself in terms of the outer world.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge