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Recent Examples of concretize
This is the perfect time to concretize your vision for the next year and the years to come.
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Danijela Pilic, Glamour, 10 July 2025
There, the flimsy divide between low- and middle-income workers wouldn’t be concretized through housing policy.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Like Luna, Kite is participating directly in a system of cultural recording, but her refusal to legibly encode or concretize her scores for the mainstream destabilizes the ethnographic gaze and its desire to document, categorize, and control Indigenous culture, language, and bodies.
—Christopher T. Green, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
By exploring the looming threats of World War II through the personal, O'Connor concretizes the stakes for the island, avoiding what might otherwise be a plodding rehashing of history.
—Kristen Martin, NPR, 16 May 2024
To advance the story visually, the film concretizes certain allusions and memories.
—Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
To physically change my body felt like an important way to concretize that work.
—New York Times, 10 May 2022
And as activists began to die in large numbers, ACT UP held several funeral processions both as acts of commemoration and to concretize the mass deaths the public refused to acknowledge.
—Dagmawi Woubshet, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2021
Danijela Pilic, Glamour, 10 July 2025
There, the flimsy divide between low- and middle-income workers wouldn’t be concretized through housing policy.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Like Luna, Kite is participating directly in a system of cultural recording, but her refusal to legibly encode or concretize her scores for the mainstream destabilizes the ethnographic gaze and its desire to document, categorize, and control Indigenous culture, language, and bodies.
—Christopher T. Green, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
By exploring the looming threats of World War II through the personal, O'Connor concretizes the stakes for the island, avoiding what might otherwise be a plodding rehashing of history.
—Kristen Martin, NPR, 16 May 2024
To advance the story visually, the film concretizes certain allusions and memories.
—Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
To physically change my body felt like an important way to concretize that work.
—New York Times, 10 May 2022
And as activists began to die in large numbers, ACT UP held several funeral processions both as acts of commemoration and to concretize the mass deaths the public refused to acknowledge.
—Dagmawi Woubshet, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concretize
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But one by one, each of them left until one year Villa realized there was no one left to have a posada with.—
Andrés Soto,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
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What is directly affected is the city’s share — and in Cooper City, that matters more than many people realize.—
Lisa Mallozzi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 Feb. 2026
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The offensive profile is formidable, and Anthony is only just beginning to fully actualize his potential.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
28 Jan. 2026
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Olathe and Johnson County officials will be similarly involved in green-lighting individual steps required to actualize a team headquarters, practice facility and entertainment district.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
22 Dec. 2025
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At the surface, everything about Doug Moe — his teams, his manner, his dress sense — seemed to embody complete madness.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
18 Feb. 2026
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The Declaration mandates no particular American foreign policy, but the values the document embodies have always informed it, even as American statesmen have struggled to reconcile the country’s many mundane interests with the principles that gave it birth.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
Verb
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None of us need to manifest chaos.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
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From there, the blessing parade begins to manifest — family joy, an abundance of abundance, fresh new ideas and options, popularity and fame, focus and discipline, clarity and protection.—
Tribune Content Agency,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Feb. 2026
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Those are plays on which the big fellas get a chance just to body defensive backs.—
Derrik Klassen,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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This law from a San Diego County lawmaker expands access to confidential police personnel records by granting civilian oversight bodies the authority to review them during misconduct investigations.—
Sam Schulz,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Concretize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concretize. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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