internalize
verb (used with object)
to incorporate (the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group), as through learning, socialization, or identification.
internalise
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a variation of
internalize.
Example Sentences
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"Beijing's intention, in short, is to internalise the cross-strait issue, treating it as a domestic matter for China, with foreign intervention prohibited," Mainland Affairs Council spokesman Liang Wen-chieh said Thursday.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
"I think growing up undiagnosed, you grow up thinking everything you're doing is wrong because you're different and you then internalise a lot of that so you're very oversensitive as well," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
Its main option is to internalise the insurance business by the end of 2023.
From Reuters ● May 5, 2022
My height was an identity that I didn’t identify with, one that was imposed on me externally and that only over time did I learn to internalise.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2018
How is one to internalise this truth, seek to convey to our readers the paradoxes that abound in our reading of this beautiful, bewitching 'aparanta'?
From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various
