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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 Virtuoso delivers accurate externalization and localization of sound, ensuring mix decisions translate well to loudspeakers. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 The most popular strategy at the moment is what's known as 'border externalization' wherein third-countries, particularly in North and West Africa, are funded to either prevent people leaving their territory or intercept them on the way to Europe. Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 25 Oct. 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 Lizzy’s landlord, Jo (Hong Chau), constructs enormous, colorful webs, externalizations of her open personality. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023 But Europe’s externalization policies haven’t worked. Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
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Noun
  • Inside the park, attendees can roam through physical manifestations of Nintendo games, including the Mushroom Kingdom and Donkey Kong Country.
    Sage Anderson, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
  • Her mom has trouble with intimate relationships and is sort of like a boy crazy mom, and Taylor's the one that's seeing the manifestation of that, and essentially comforting her mother and trying to help her.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Time and time again, the AI spit out images that were strikingly, unmistakably...
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • Scientists created the Mars rover's newest self-portrait by stitching together 59 individual images taken by Perseverance's camera, which is located at the end of its robotic arm.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 29 May 2025

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“Externalization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/externalization. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.

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