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topicalized

topicalized is the simple past and past participle 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

Adjective

topicalized (comparative more topicalized, superlative most topicalized)

  1. Having the topic at the beginning.

Forms of topicalized

Verb
alternative formtopicalised
Adjective
comparativemore topicalized
superlativemost topicalized

Questions about topicalized

What does topicalized mean?
Topicalized means having the topic at the beginning.
What is topicalized the simple past and past participle of?
Topicalized is the simple past and past participle of topicalize.
What part of speech is topicalized?
Topicalized is an adjective.

Words near topicalized in the dictionary

  1. topicalities
  2. topicality
  3. topicalization
  4. topicalizations
  5. topicalize
  6. topicalized
  7. topicalizer
  8. topicalizers
  9. topicalizes
  10. topicalizing
  11. topically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: topicalized (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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