Verb (used with object), : to concretize abstractions.    From Dictionary.com. 

Nobel Committee itself to interpret and concretize the concept of peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Peace Prize 2006 - Presentation Speech] Reference

I think it's going to concretize more seductively the things that we can imagine.    From Wordnik.com.  [TV Network Offers Religious Journeys In 3-D] Reference

Sahnoun said Monday that there is "still a small hope to concretize the meeting.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

We can concretize our innocuous realism in a second assumption of noncontextuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kochen-Specker Theorem] Reference

Voltaire lived long enough to see some of his long-term legacies start to concretize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voltaire] Reference

So this metaphor that we could concretize on the screen and then feel better about after it leaves is very good.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2001] Reference

We concretize what is abstract and integral because we need to raise money and people feel better writing checks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eve Ensler: V To The Tenth] Reference

As you may be aware, following the Reichstag fire, this is precisely the procedure Hitler used to concretize his power.    From Wordnik.com.  [A family tradition | Jewschool] Reference

Also needed are the lyrics and the dance — specific targets to concretize the goals and policy actions to achieve them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Transition~ Where Do We Want To Go] Reference

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's canny observation does much to verbalize what we all know but don't concretize.    From Wordnik.com.  [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference

I'm much more likely to begin with a scene, an image, which I then have to work at to concretize in the reader's imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Worldbuilding] Reference

Of course, the intention is to concretize the position that the MDC is a stooge of the Western governments in the minds of Zimbabwe.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2008] Reference

Changing our mental labels to "someone trying to help" and "people in need" is also helpful so long as we do not concretize the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 16 Making Sensitive Decisions] Reference

An implementation plan to concretize the principles of the NLPF drafted by the department would also be presented during the launch.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Out of these ministerial forums, technical committees consisting of bureaucrats and SMT's were established to concretize the agreements reached in these forums.    From Wordnik.com.  [EASTERN CAPE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT] Reference

Mallozzi's overview does manage to (at least somewhat) concretize Dr. J.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference

A nation able to concretize its vision of a thousand friends and zero enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference

And there's this eagerness to somehow concretize that connection for people.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

It took 3 years after World War II to concretize the right for Israel to exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media] Reference

"So they have a need to externalize or concretize the pain, and they make it real.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CTV BritishColumbiaHome] Reference

"We have no interest in acceding to these attempts to concretize Israeli superiority,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Reference

Job generation is top priority to realize or concretize economic gains or data before the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Aquino says Philippines to be more investor friendly] Reference

Chávez met with Ahmadinejad in early April to concretize a bi-national bank and development fund.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venezuela Analysis] Reference

U.S. - Russian-Kazakh initiative to stabilize Kyrgyzstan would help concretize our rhetoric forsaking zero-sum games. 
.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home/News] Reference

See how he or she will be able to illustrate and concretize to you the plans and details that you are trying to point out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

"We have prepared several concepts that the government is currently trying to concretize into practical solutions," he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Star > News Feed] Reference

This particular approach helps concretize the idea that adding public methods to a Ruby object implicitly builds an interface.    From Wordnik.com.  [RubyCorner] Reference

Our federal budgets will concretize all of this with escalating military expenditures coupled with frozen austerity in all other spheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

A common impression he elicits from people is his Chris Hutcherson's ability to concretize his vision and formulate steps to achieve that.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

In this way, we concretize our emotions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mona Ackerman: Compassion In Times Of Financial Crisis] Reference

In order to get money you must concretize.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reigning Diva of the Violin Embraces Contemporary Music] Reference

"A writer should shape the values of his culture, he should project and concretize the value goals of man's life.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNET Asia Reviews] Reference

This time, I would like to concretize this.    From Wordnik.com.  [LaRouche's Latest] Reference