as in beginning
to come into existence
several years passed before any profits from the enterprise actualized
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Recent Examples of actualizing
The collective takeaway is that producing, forging and actualizing belief is a way to center oneself, turn the volume down on all the noise out there, and feel… well, to put it simply, good.
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Nick Remsen, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2025
Nick Remsen, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for actualizing
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Advertisement Along with restoring the center’s name, Judge Cooper also reversed the board’s decision to shut it down for two years beginning on July 5.—
Philip Wang,
Time,
13 June 2026
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Just a few neighborhoods away, another revolution was brewing at CBGB, where punk rock was beginning to rewrite the city’s soundtrack.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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Though both teams are coming off wins, each tweaked its starting 11 from those openers, with Mexico changing three starters.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
19 June 2026
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Meanwhile, police cut off traffic going east on Olympic Boulevard starting at Ardmore Avenue.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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The latter of those two strikeouts was followed by audible boos originating from the stands behind the Braves dugout.—
Tyler Estep,
AJC.com,
19 June 2026
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The auto-pay benefit will apply broadly to borrowers in repayment with federal loans originating after July 1, 2012.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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The lawsuit is the second to be filed this year arising from accidents involving Daddino, court records show.—
Brittany Wallman,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2026
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The adaptation of Robin Moore's nonfiction book sees two detectives try to bring down a drug kingpin with complications arising at every turn.—
Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
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The genial ginger singer-songwriter returned to North America June 13 with a run commencing at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
14 June 2026
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The 79th annual Cannes Film Festival is around the corner, commencing May 13 with the opening ceremony at the Palais des Festivals in the south of France.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
12 May 2026
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The 63-year-old Scary Movie 6 actress revealed that she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, while appearing on the Wednesday, June 10 episode of Chelsea Handler’s Dear Chelsea podcast.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
16 June 2026
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After appearing in numerous TV anthology drama series in the 1950s, Smithers segued to regular series work in the ’60s, most notably a nine-month run as the character David Schuster in the nighttime soap Peyton Place in 1965-66.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
16 June 2026
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However, the edges of these disks may have temperatures and conditions akin to the planet-forming protoplanetary disks found around infant stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 June 2026
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But with this illusion of ease comes a lack of interaction, which is an essential part of forming relationships, according to Eastwick.—
Avni Trivedi,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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“Actualizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actualizing. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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