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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
concretize .
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Examples
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Adding numbers concretizes your accomplishments and paints a better picture of what you actually did.
Keep Your Resume Out Of The Trash By Quantifying Your Accomplishments | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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But it also concretizes the illusion of fictional or imaginative worlds by de-mystifying a primary illusion that motivates their genesis: that such worlds necessarily are spaces of possibility, of greater freedom than reality, or more life-sustaining than living.
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The closeup of Randy's back after this battle, his flesh pockmarked with shards of glass and metal, concretizes the Christ metaphor, grounds it in the suffering of the hero, except that Randy doesn't suffer for anybody's sins other than perhaps his own.
The Wrestler Ed Howard 2009
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This move concretizes one of the big nightmares that caused many European policymakers to question the scope of software patents -- an issue that is now a subject of an administrative proceeding at the European Patent Office.
Brian Kahin: Microsoft Roils the World with FAT Patents 2009
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Which itself doesn't tell us, really, anything new, but concretizes, like the Bosnia story, what is already known.
While McCain Watches 2008
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The final handing over ceremony concretizes the Green Tree Accord thus bringing to a end a long story of land and maritime dispute between two neighbouring countries.
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Mt 7:24 and it is the observance of his commandments which concretizes love for Him and draws the love of the Father cf.
Archive 2008-06-01 papabear 2008
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Equiano narrates one more pedagogical scene which concretizes much of our discussion thus far:
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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Seeing an item up close concretizes the lesson a thousand-fold.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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The esoteric officer concretizes for us, with abstruse slang, the perversity of informing that the Armed Forces are being concentrated in order to become an asymmetrical warrior.
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