Example Sentences

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Bird designed tools to help the kids budget, and holds weekly money meetings to check in and reinforce the ideas she hopes her children, now 11, 9 and 8 years old, will internalize.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

This is what many women will internalize, and they will behave accordingly.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2025

This is what a child will internalize when they share themselves and are met with doubt and rejection.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2023

Eventually, Washington fans will internalize what search engines know.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2017

“You wonder how many people are out here out of curiosity,” he added, taking stock of the crowd, “and how many will internalize the fact we have the capability to destroy our species.”

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2015