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Recent Examples of concretize
There, the flimsy divide between low- and middle-income workers wouldn’t be concretized through housing policy.
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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
More than communication tools, languages help concretize the abstract, providing frameworks for making sense of concepts as fundamental as time.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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
Over time, these differences tend to concretize, revealing the ultimate danger in partially remote workforces: the creation of essentially two different organizations.
—Brian Kardon, Fortune, 5 July 2020
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
More than communication tools, languages help concretize the abstract, providing frameworks for making sense of concepts as fundamental as time.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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
Over time, these differences tend to concretize, revealing the ultimate danger in partially remote workforces: the creation of essentially two different organizations.
—Brian Kardon, Fortune, 5 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concretize
Verb
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Obviously, Bubba didn't realize that Larson was going to check up that hard.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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More students came forward with lawsuits of their own upon realizing they were being spied on.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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While there’s a strong progressive desire to start over from the ground up, there’s still a rawness among those who saw their fears of an ultra-wealthy government actualized in real-time by Trump’s actions.—
Hanna Trudo,
The Hill,
23 Jan. 2025
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Let those elements serve as a compass for actualizing your new purpose.—
Erica Yanney,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Biden was forced to embody his party's failures, but received no credit for his policy successes.—
Justin Peck / Made by History,
TIME,
14 Mar. 2025
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No visit to Seoul is complete without diving into its culinary culture, and nothing embodies Korean cuisine more than kimchi.—
Judy Koutsky,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
Verb
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This can manifest as blame, sarcasm, eye rolls or silence, which are all forms of communication that may send unintended messages. When emotional safety is lacking, even routine conversations can feel charged.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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For the men, this effort manifests in a competition as old as time.—
Gabby Herzig,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Opposing teams have developed a habit of bodying her at the perimeter, trying to disarm her at the point of attack.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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Medium bodied with brilliant acidity folded around tropical flavors as well as candy cane.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Concretize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concretize. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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