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as in to individualize
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Recent Examples of particularize
Wagner works hard to particularize these women, but the play, which has over the years lost an intermission and been streamlined into one 95-minute act, has trouble getting started.
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New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
Within this prison, Ms. Nwandu has been careful to particularize and humanize her main characters so that the tragedy is not just theoretical or surreal.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
His Democratic opponent was quick to particularize the term for low-information voters: Barbour had lobbied not only for Big Oil, nuclear power plants, and some more-or-less savory foreign governments.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
The Justice Department, which intervened on Trump’s behalf in New York, has taken a narrower approach, saying Vance must prove ‘‘particularized need’’ for the records before they are released to a grand jury.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019
That’s a problem built into the bloated mash-up of genres: Comedy is based on particularizing human behavior, but allegory is based on generalizing it.
—New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
Photojournalists have deployed a familiar toolbox of artful devices to distill these panoramas of destruction down to human scale, particularize the war and speak to a wider public.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
Within this prison, Ms. Nwandu has been careful to particularize and humanize her main characters so that the tragedy is not just theoretical or surreal.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
His Democratic opponent was quick to particularize the term for low-information voters: Barbour had lobbied not only for Big Oil, nuclear power plants, and some more-or-less savory foreign governments.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
The Justice Department, which intervened on Trump’s behalf in New York, has taken a narrower approach, saying Vance must prove ‘‘particularized need’’ for the records before they are released to a grand jury.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019
That’s a problem built into the bloated mash-up of genres: Comedy is based on particularizing human behavior, but allegory is based on generalizing it.
—New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
Photojournalists have deployed a familiar toolbox of artful devices to distill these panoramas of destruction down to human scale, particularize the war and speak to a wider public.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for particularize
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This is why having a solution, whether individualizing information or some other tool that will help foster more trust is critical.—
Troy Batterberry,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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For example, drug developers or healthcare practitioners can individualize drug therapy to a patient based on their recent lab results via simulation of potential dosing strategies or drug treatment combinations.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
19 Sep. 2024
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Sandler enumerated services the school provides, in addition to $850,000 in rent, including vocational training, physical recreation, transportation, scholarships for the children of veterans and hundreds of free meals.—
Doug Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2025
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And his influence can be seen in so many places, there’s no point in even enumerating it.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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Royal Caribbean takes pains to differentiate those spaces from others on board.—
Nathan Diller,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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Picking your form of government used to feel like an existential choice, but now despotism and oligarchy are hardly differentiated.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The medical journal also details how popular teas like green tea, ginger and rosehip can also fight inflammation and prevent oxidative damage.—
Eve Glover,
Fox News,
16 Feb. 2025
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The release details how the DOD will no longer formally celebrate cultural awareness months, including Black History Month, Pride Month, or National American Indian Heritage Month.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
16 Feb. 2025
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Customers will have the opportunity to customize their Mamma Baguette bags with letters and symbols at the accessories minibar.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
WWD,
7 Feb. 2025
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An easy way to customize IKEA sofas and chairs is to purchase slipcovers.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Feb. 2025
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Thursday’s notice, if accepted by an insurer, would remove from a policyholder the burden of counting every throw pillow or itemizing every fork.—
Rukmini Callimachi,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2025
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But since 2018, only about 10% of them have been itemizing.—
Una Osili,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Energiewende, Germany's energy transition, is characterized by what some critics consider to be overly ambitious goals for achieving net greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045.—
Gordon Feller,
Ars Technica,
6 Feb. 2025
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History of safety concerns Prosecutors and defense characterized the mother-son relationship as tumultuous, with law enforcement being called for domestic violence in November 2023, leading to the son’s arrest, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2025
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The details of the agreement were not immediately disclosed, as both the union and the City Council indicated the contract must be formally ratified by both parties.—
Julia Fomby,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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In a letter to Superintendent Larry Snelling written just days after the shooting, COPA Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten disclosed that the agency launched another investigation into the same group of officers less than a month before the Reed shooting.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Particularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/particularize. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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