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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 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
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Noun
  • Camping, in all its modern manifestations, has become an increasingly popular and affordable go-to strategy for families eager to get outside and enjoy meaningful time together.
    Lynn O'Rourke Hayes, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The science around this condition continues to evolve, and the physical and mental manifestations of CTE remain under study.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Rehabilitation A week after Manes’ departure, Johnson posted the image of himself posing with Bukele and their families in front of a Christmas tree.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • When police released images of the weapon, Robinson’s father texted his son, asking for a picture of the gun, according to the charging document.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Externalization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/externalization. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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