historicize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of historicize
Example Sentences
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I’ve long tried to historicize ideas that people hold.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026
When I teach Butler’s novels to my students, we use them to interpret our present moment as well as to historicize it in relationship to the long history of racism and sexism.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
It is a question he does not answer as much as historicize:
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2019
The more contemporary internet history — the stuff that we’re living in now — I feel like I’m just too close to it to really historicize it.
From The Verge ● Mar. 5, 2018
The last, to historicize, I sealed in an envelope and mailed to myself.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Someday, this era of gymnastics and world history will be framed and historicized, and we’ll be able to situate the surreal Tokyo Olympics within it.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2021
The black power movement is frequently historicized as being rife with militant anger and radicalism.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2019
The historicized past is everywhere I walk in my daily rituals—to get to the store, or to the gym on Rampart Street, or to my car to visit with Carl.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019
Yet the craze for karaoke, the naming of boats after Jackson’s children, and the unshakable memory of the Thrilla in Manila add a touch of humor to this otherwise bleak historicized narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
This means that the content of the pure intuition cannot be either an abstract concept, or a speculative concept or idea, or a conceptualized, that is historicized, representation.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
Yet something about Sunday’s ceremony made it hard to get too worked up about all the historicizing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026
In the years since, cookbooks devoted to Asian food have continued to adopt a tone of expertise, parsing regional differences or historicizing spice tolerance, approaching their subjects with a kind of scholarly reverence.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 23, 2015
And don’t call it “early music,” because that term tends to imply a set of quotation marks around something: a historicizing distance.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2015
But now he is dead and the work of historicizing is well underway.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2013
Such was the story told by the Egyptian priests to Herodotus, and it appeared satisfactory to his historicizing mind.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
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