How to Use internalize in a Sentence
internalize
verb- They have internalized their parents' values.
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Jack, just like a lot of soldiers of the era, dealt with and internalized a lot.
— Dan Snierson, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2019 -
Being an Israeli means that the sense of the state is internalized in you.
— David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024 -
Over time many of the young people internalized these views and came to be ashamed of their culture.
— Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2020 -
Life comes at you fast and the most successful people have to internalize those lessons even faster to stay in the game.
— Aron Solomon, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022 -
The creative team has very much internalized the lessons of Season Three.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023 -
The pressure can be enormous, and the skills and values you’re taught to internalize may not serve you well in the real world.
— Constance Grady, Vox, 14 Aug. 2024 -
After her mom died, Scott — who was 14 at the time — largely internalized the loss.
— Nicole Miller-Coleman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Sep. 2017 -
The Orioles tend to internalize slights and win games in response.
— Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 6 May 2017 -
But its own breezy way, the episode does internalize a lot of King’s fatalism.
— Noel Murray, The Verge, 27 July 2018 -
Some of us internalize our pain, while others find ways to channel it out into the world, for good and for ill.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023 -
Instead of hiding or internalizing them, own them and show them off to the world!
— Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 25 June 2019 -
The simplest route to this is to use taxes to force companies to internalize the cost of carbon.
— James MacKintosh, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022 -
My hope was to internalize Celsius, not just to learn it but to feel it in my American flesh.
— Matthew Kassel, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018 -
My mom also hates tattoos and can’t seem to internalize that my niece is trolling her.
— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023 -
Jeff seems to have been internalizing a lot of the events that happened last season, many of which are out of his control.
— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023 -
At the end of the day, there is something to be said for how young girls internalize celebrity beauty standards.
— Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 22 Sep. 2017 -
Over the past few years, the Jazz had internalized the friction of modern basketball.
— Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 26 July 2019 -
Give them a chance to think about the documents and internalize their meaning.
— Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019 -
The grueling day reminds him of something he’s been forced to internalize the last half-year.
— Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Aug. 2021 -
For those still looking to take the first step, internalize the lessons to be learned from these five mistakes and know that a better way of doing things is out there.
— Tal Frankfurt, Forbes, 15 June 2022 -
In other words, try to internalize the pain of oppression and the joy of redemption.
— Ron Shulman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2022 -
But even people who are not men can internalize this stuff.
— Britni De La Cretaz, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2021 -
But for her part, the singer didn’t internalize the industry’s blatant bias.
— Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023 -
As a result, boys cry far less, and internalize their emotions far more.
— John Duffy, CNN, 4 May 2021 -
Children of the '80s internalized the idea that old cars were generally cooler and faster, and to a large extent, that was true.
— Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 7 Apr. 2020 -
But Catherine Olsson, the project’s de facto leader, told me the rubric had helped her internalize what was safe.
— Gregory Barber, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021 -
So the manager or coach internalizes the pressure and stress.
— Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 19 June 2017 -
Even at her young age, Lily has internalized Debra’s view that the past was difficult for women.
— Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024 -
That foundation helped to bolster against internalizing the hatred she’s heard spewed about Haitian people over the last several decades – and even longer.
— Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 17 Sep. 2024
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