Thesaurus results for EXTERNALIZE

externalize

verb

ek-ˈstər-nə-ˌlīz

as in to embody

to represent in visible form an actress with an expressive face that wonderfully externalizes a wide range of emotions

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Recent Examples of externalize Parents completed questionnaires about their child’s mental health symptoms, both internalizing such as depression and anxiety and externalizing such as ADHD or behavioral issues. —

New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025 Mario Jorge Machado, president of the European apparel and textile lobbying group Euratex said the Chinese giant’s low-price model is only made possible by flouting EU environmental and tax rules to externalize costs. —

Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025 The study also found that negative coparenting leads to a range of internalizing and externalizing problems for kids later in life. —

Essence, 2 Sep. 2025 Writing, for instance, externalizes memory. —

Dan Rockmore, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for externalize

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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
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