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Recent Examples of externalization Art is an externalization of our imagination and need to express ourselves. Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025 Virtuoso delivers accurate externalization and localization of sound, ensuring mix decisions translate well to loudspeakers. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 Virtuoso delivers accurate externalization and localization of sound, ensuring mix decisions translate well to loudspeakers. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 The most popular strategy at the moment is what's known as 'border externalization' wherein third-countries, particularly in North and West Africa, are funded to either prevent people leaving their territory or intercept them on the way to Europe. Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024 But this depiction of public shaming feels like a paranoid fantasy, an externalization of May’s guilt, rather than a believable development. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024 Interludes in which the accusing faces of prisoners silently fill the frame act as a sort of externalization of his survivor’s guilt. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024 Lizzy’s landlord, Jo (Hong Chau), constructs enormous, colorful webs, externalizations of her open personality. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023 But Europe’s externalization policies haven’t worked. Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
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Noun
  • These methods address not just the emotional but the physical manifestations of moral injury and foster long-term resilience.
    Yujia Zhu, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • Wimbledon is the tennis manifestation of this attitude, the sensible friend who likes to call it a night early.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • Flagship boutiques from Milan and Paris lined the promenades, conjuring images of home.
    Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • The 25 kilos of drugs were wrapped in packaging featuring the iconic gun-brandishing cartoon character, the Walton County Sheriff's Office said in a social media post, which included images of the cocaine.
    July 1, CBS News, 1 July 2025

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“Externalization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/externalization. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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