externalizing

present participle of externalize

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of externalizing The savings from externalizing costs—for example, keeping farmers poor, letting soils deplete, clearing forests—are now lower than the benefits of internalizing value—for example, training farmers, restoring ecosystems, paying a living income. — Santiago Gowland, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 His currently pending Senate Bill 1182 requires that developers in wildfire-prone areas address insurability risks upfront instead of externalizing those costs onto the FAIR Plan and, ultimately, the public. — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 15 May 2026 That’s in part because girls don’t tend to display some of the big externalizing behaviors, like aggression or tantrums, that people tend to associate with autism in boys, Black says. — Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for externalizing
Verb
  • Pattinson throws his whole being into embodying the ringmaster rapidly losing control of his circus.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • However, after embodying fussy dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock for Phantom Thread in 2017, Day-Lewis was once again claiming to be done with show business.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The 31-year-old took to X to share the news with her legion of Hotties, expressing her gratitude and excitement for the opportunity.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • This season is very much about expressing your personal style and wearing things in different ways.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Advertisement Perhaps more importantly, the bloc is incorporating climate into the core of its economic planning.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The score, composed by Damon Albarn, has a rough, analog feel to it, incorporating instruments like an Indonesian angklung.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Externalizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/externalizing. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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