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topicalizing

topicalizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about topicalizing

What is topicalizing the present participle and gerund of?
Topicalizing is the present participle and gerund of topicalize.

Words near topicalizing in the dictionary

  1. topicalize
  2. topicalized
  3. topicalizer
  4. topicalizers
  5. topicalizes
  6. topicalizing
  7. topically
  8. topicalness
  9. topicals
  10. topicities
  11. topicity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: topicalizing (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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