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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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concretize
Verb
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And, my fears were realized — the park was crowded.—
Tom Montgomery Fate,
Chicago Tribune,
25 July 2025
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In response to famines in East and West Africa, U.S. aid officials realized the need for a way to monitor global hunger.—
Nurith Aizenman,
NPR,
25 July 2025
Verb
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Wellness takes work and that work is most likely actualized through working in direct partnership with mental health professionals.—
Jess Cording,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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The bill strives to actualize budget savings by making renewal and enrollment processes stricter, decrease the federal matching rate and limit states’ use of provider taxes for Medicaid funding, among others.—
Bhavya Ancha,
Baltimore Sun,
7 June 2025
Verb
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Margaret Qualley is used to embodying larger than life characters on screen.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
24 July 2025
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Van Persie’s bright but brief flame at United embodies the tension between short-term success and sustainable long-term performance that is at the heart of all transfer decisions.—
Conor O'Neill,
New York Times,
24 July 2025
Verb
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Pain manifests during activity and is relieved with rest.—
Colleen Doherty,
Verywell Health,
20 July 2025
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These symptoms can take several days to weeks to manifest.—
Shreya Srinivasan,
NBC news,
17 July 2025
Verb
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Barrel aged wines tend to be fuller bodied on the palate as well.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
12 June 2025
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Soccer is a surprisingly physical game that involves a good deal of bodying one’s opponent — tackling, in soccer-speak.—
J.T. Barbarese,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2025
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“Concretize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concretize. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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