essentialize
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of essentialize
Example Sentences
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Yet most of the narratives upon which we have settled continue to essentialize race and gender almost to the exclusion of everything else.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2022
Just as “Italian food” or “Italian culture” is too monolithic a descriptor for something so complex and diverse, it is impossible to essentialize a place even as small as Golfo Paradiso.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2019
“We do not have strict diagnostic criteria, an essentialized definition, or a firm grasp of what causes it.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
The Muslim American experience is essential to her work but never essentialized; Elhillo’s poems are too multifarious for that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
“You were moving away from these ideas of essentialized womanhood that held feminism back,” Cox said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
Here LaVey put an occult spin on Helen Gurley Brown’s “Sex and the Single Girl,” another book notorious for allegedly empowering women by cultivating their essentialized wiles.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2014
I mean the subsistence of a thing by itself, and essentialized in itself; and such are essence and life, intellect, soul, and body.
From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Taylor, Thomas
It has this essentializing force that really centers you on yourself, and in some ways, detaches you from other people.
From Salon ● May 4, 2022
Reclaiming the device from essentializing myths — a “cursed” gender, a “cursed” continent — they ask what function curses play in the manufacture of histories, families, villages and nations, simultaneously paying homage to the ostracized.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2019
But as with any general history, it risks essentializing China and making its history seem more uniform than the actual record justifies.
From Nature ● Aug. 2, 2016
"But Scott and Mike and Jake found a structure that worked, and this through-line of all these people mis-seeing or essentializing each other, which I thought really captured the book."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2015
And human forms received the same essentializing treatment.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2012
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