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concretize
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con·cre·tize  (knkr-tz, kng-)
tr.v. con·cre·tized, con·cre·tiz·ing, con·cre·tiz·es
To make real or specific: "The need to simplify and concretize . . . was hardly acceptable to a mind fascinated by the . . . suggestiveness of ideas" Arthur A. Cohen.

concre·ti·zation (-t-zshn) n.
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Verb1.concretize - make something concrete
narrow down, pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow, specify - define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game"
2.concretize - become specific; "the idea concretized in her mind"
change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"

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Lourdes' traumatic relation to Cuban history therefore concretizes her resolve never to return permanently to her homeland, and impels her to proudly lay claim to her acquired status as an American citizen.
If one never concretizes the love commandment in a way that touches on this issue and other social issues, preaching at best is privatized and at worst offers innocuous generalizations.
books (in the beginning was the word), abjection (Head and Bottle, 1975, thrusts the artist's gaze facedown on his liquid muse), and the formless (since for Guston speech/language concretizes vision, his blockish forms, as Cooper proposed, shift identities with the same metonymical slipperiness that enables us to name a single thought with diverse related words).
 
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