How to Use actualize in a Sentence

actualize

verb
  • This year that’s been actualized with more in-game power, which was always the hope.
    — Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 22 Aug. 2024
  • How have things been in your efforts to actualize that vision?
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
  • At that point in your life your frontal lobe isn't fully formed and your idea of self isn't fully actualized.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
  • Speech is latent as well as actualized with a potency far greater than any atomic bomb.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This is how new ideas, inventions and creations are actualized.
    — Simone Milasas, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • These are choices that actualize Africa.
    — Emeka Ajene, semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Mark really helped me and guided me through this process of being able to actualize my songs into recordings.
    — Dominique Moreno, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Roasting, not boiling, gnocchi is the best way to actualize their full potential.
    — Hana Asbrink, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Let those elements serve as a compass for actualizing your new purpose.
    — Erica Yanney, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • What’s the point of having agency, of being self-actualized, when your physical self might betray the whole thing?
    — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 16 Apr. 2020
  • To feel human is to feel heard, seen and understood and to actualize our potential with meaning and purpose.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • The process begins with identifying the dream and constructing a path to actualize it.
    — Rachelle Rutherford, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Oh man, is Michael gaslighting God and causing him to self-actualize his power problems?
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 May 2021
  • In a scene thick with irony, Rowan verbalizes the tragedy in having to execute a bright black man in order to actualize his plan.
    — Tanisha C. Ford, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Hush Night can be a stepping stone into actualizing the girls’ larger goals beyond the weekly event.
    — Nicholas Goodly, Them, 5 Oct. 2024
  • But, perhaps, more importantly, these earth signs aren’t afraid to put in the work to actualize their aspirations.
    — Allure, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Black men who were completely confident and actualized in their ideals, even if the viewpoints were opposing and varied?
    — The Root Staff, The Root, 16 Feb. 2018
  • That’s on top of Disney actualizing $3 billion in cost cuts and synergies.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
  • An Egyptian drama about a woman who is still trying to self-actualize while raising two kids and keeping their lives together.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Impossible advice to actualize for yourself, but the journey at the show is learning how to be yourself in front of everybody.
    — Andy Hoglund, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
  • If Vivian is not seen to be fully self-actualizing and in charge of her own destiny, as well as her own sexuality, there might well be hell to pay.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The goal is to actualize both protection and connection under the Mars-Saturn trine.
    — Colin Bedell, Them., 21 Oct. 2025
  • Use the 10 days after the new moon to vividly visualize and actualize your dream life into existence.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Nobody wants to cede that much power to history, to admit so little self-determination in the land of actualizing dreams.
    — Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
  • There was a newfound hope that Jagari and Mwondela may finally actualize their long-defunct dream of a career in music.
    — Morena Duwe, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2022
  • This idea of steadiness is a quality Cohan tries to actualize in her character, Maggie.
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Our eighth annual list showcases some of the continent’s brightest minds that are hell-bent on actualizing change across the world and multiple sectors.
    — Laura Smythe, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The government’s threats, first made in the week-long tit-for-tat in April, will be actualized starting Friday, July 6.
    — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • Aquarius With the intensity of lusty Mars in your sign for an unusually long time, new desires are bound to awaken and actualize in your life.
    — Rebecca Gordon, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 June 2018
  • How prepared are people and their organizations to adopt, adapt and actualize on the promising digital technologies being pitched as the path to the future?
    — Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021

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