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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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However, the protocols remain fluid as Trump’s team tries to sort how to individualize a rate for each nation, the Journal reported, adding that developing reciprocal tariffs unique to each country could take six months or more.—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
18 Mar. 2025
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Rather than talking about moral and immoral or good and bad, try to individualize these decisions.—
Nicole Dieker Finley,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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Some fundamental rights are enumerated in the Constitution: freedom of speech, the right to a jury trial, and so on.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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That was Joe Biden’s strategy for three years that only produced the immense casualties enumerated above.—
John Seiler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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Managers shouldn't need to differentiate their employees’ performance on a 3% budget.—
Dr. Lisa Toppin,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Over five decades, Henry Fonda represented an American ideal whose hidden complexes differentiated him from his peers Gary Cooper, John Wayne, James Stewart, and Joel McCrea.—
Armond White,
National Review,
4 Apr. 2025
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Valente Brothers, Ivanka Trump's trainers, share benefits of jiu-jitsu practice Celebrity self-defense instructors Joaquim, Pedro and Gui Valente — whose clients have included Ivanka Trump and Gisele Bündchen — detail how the martial art benefits the body and mind.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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During a virtual all-hands meeting with employees on Friday, CMS acting Administrator Stephanie Carlton detailed some of the specific offices at the agency impacted by cuts under Kennedy’s broader plan to restructure the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2025
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Each query can be customized — such as adding the state where the taxpayer lives — then cutting-and-pasting only the portions in quotations into the free generative AI chatbot of your choosing.—
Tor Constantino, MBA,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Among the plans being considered were customizing tariff rates for each US trading partner, levying tariffs on certain countries but not others or imposing a flat rate as high as 20% on all imports.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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But few people itemize expenses these days, so most people receive no offsetting tax benefit for the contribution.—
Bob Carlson,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Those deductions must be itemized and total more than 7.5% of your adjusted gross income.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2025
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to characterize the sudden change in policy as part of a grand negotiating strategy.—
Christopher Rugaber,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
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The World Health Organization defines burnout as an occupational phenomenon which is characterized by feelings of energy depletion, increased mental distance from one's job, and reduced professional efficacy.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Apr. 2025
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Driving the news: Terms of the partnership weren't disclosed, but Ravindran confirms CSD made an investment in Floreo.—
Claire Rychlewski,
Axios,
8 Apr. 2025
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The foundation has never publicly disclosed its donors or the names of the churches and nonprofits receiving its funds.—
Lawrence Mower,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Particularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/particularize. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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