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topicalise

topicalise is the alternative spelling of topicalize.

Meaning of topicalize

Verb

topicalize (third-person singular simple present topicalizes, present participle topicalizing, simple past and past participle topicalized)

  1. To place the topic of a sentence at the beginning.
  2. To treat (a subject) as a topic.
    • […] during the whole media debate the alternative point of view and the perspective and rights of the minority groups themselves were hardly, if at all, topicalized.2013, Teun A. van Dijk, News Analysis, page 203

Forms of topicalise

third-person singular presenttopicalises
present participletopicalising
past participletopicalised
pasttopicalised

Questions about topicalise

What is topicalise the alternative spelling of?
Topicalise is the alternative spelling of topicalize.

Words near topicalise in the dictionary

  1. topic of conversation
  2. topic sentence
  3. topic sentences
  4. topical
  5. topicalisation
  6. topicalise
  7. topicalised
  8. topicalises
  9. topicalising
  10. topicalities
  11. topicality

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Adapted from Wiktionary: topicalise (page history and authors); topicalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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