How to Use intellectualize in a Sentence

intellectualize

verb
  • Rather than intellectualize the club, the song gives in to a thumping house beat and fame’s champagne-gold façade.
    — E.r. Pulgar, Pitchfork, 16 Apr. 2026
  • There will be no room for intellectualizing your feelings, as this season is all about nurturing the home within and around you.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
  • Trust what feels off instead of trying to intellectualize it, Virgo.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
  • Under this transit, the cosmos is calling you out for intellectualizing your feelings.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
  • Aquarius season takes you into deeper territory, and there’s no skimming or intellectualizing your way through it.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The problem is that Di Constanzo seems to be intellectualizing his themes rather than dramatizing them.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike other political systems, fascism was not meant to be intellectualized or discussed; it was meant to be experienced.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Put simply, their connection is intellectualized rather than embodied.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The media entertains these questions, in an effort to intellectualize the ideologies underpinning the cult’s bloodlust.
    — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Sweet Fortune revels in its intimacy without over-intellectualizing it.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026
  • The goal here is not to inform or educate, to listen or process, to build or intellectualize but to win, to own, to dunk on, to break the opponent’s brain, to spawn an argument of such devastating definitiveness that the matter can be considered, once and for all, closed.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025

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