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
To illustrate and historicize her points, Rankine also includes actual remarks from public figures, from Martha Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
It is a question he does not answer as much as historicize:
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2019
The last, to historicize, I sealed in an envelope and mailed to myself.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Millennials need to get used to the fact that our cultural touchstones are going to be historicized, if not already.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
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
The arguments on both sides of this question—mythologized history or historicized mythology—fill volumes, and if anything the debate seems to be heating up rather than resolving.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2015
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 Croce, Benedetto
“Within that archiving and historicizing work was born my passion to bring together the trans and nonbinary community and queer artists,” Galindo said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
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
But it was otherwise when the same events came to be contemplated by the historicizing Greeks, who could not be satisfied without either finding or inventing satisfactory bonds of coherence between the separate events.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John
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