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- n. The process of concretizing a general principle or idea by delineating, particularizing, or exemplifying it.
- n. Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.
- n. medicine, psychology An inability to generalize or abstract accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or cognition by children.
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“The term is used in German language as synonym for the term neoliberalism or as concretization to label the neoliberalism of the Freiburg School.”
Think Progress » Boehner Claims Student Loan Reform Will ‘Eliminate Every Bank In The Country’
“In essence, we are witnessing the concretization of processes of corporate takeover that have been in the works for decades.”
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“To the extent, then, we identify an individual with the archetype, to the extent we impose by way of concretization the transpersonal on the personal, to the extent the transpersonal supplants the personal, we risk dehumanizing the individual for whom we have such high regard.”
“I guess that the Hailsham situation is so much like a concretization of what we all do in bringing up children.”
“From these sources she drew not only the dozens of tales, legends, parables and proverbs she intertwined in her text for the sake of illustration and concretization, but also the foundations of her worldview, the modes of expressing it and the various styles of her writing.”
“The Common Wealth Games Village being constructed at the Yamuna River bed near Akshardham Temple has also invited sharp criticism from various environmental activists, who claim that the construction will actually result in concretization of the river bed of Yamuna.”
“But in order to remain alive and effective, every great intellectual impulse needs cultivation, elaboration, interpretation, application, concretization, defense against misunderstanding and false criticism, but also expansion, debate, and critique.”
“To all appearances, it is a concretization, in projected and symbolic form, of the process of individuation.”
“It is this bodily aspect, as a universal medium or plenum that allows for the concretization of universal enlightenment to be realized through ritualized bodily experience.”
“Is this book a concretization of your memory and their influence, and are you pressured by their legacy, and that of their friends and colleagues?”
Scott Thill: Is This The End Of The Jews? An Interview With Adam Mansbach
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