individualize
Americanverb (used with object)
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individualizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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individualized,
past participle, past
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individualizing
present participle
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to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
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to mention, indicate, or consider individually; specify; particularize.
verb
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to make or mark as individual or distinctive in character
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to consider or treat individually; particularize
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to make or modify so as to meet the special requirements of a person
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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individualizesimple
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individualizessimple
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have individualizedperfect
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has individualizedperfect
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am individualizingprogressive
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are individualizingprogressive
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is individualizingprogressive
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have been individualizingperfect progressive
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has been individualizingperfect progressive
Past
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individualizedsimple
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had individualizedperfect
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was individualizingprogressive
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were individualizingprogressive
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had been individualizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of individualize
First recorded in 1630–40; individual + -ize
Example Sentences
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The researchers hope that the results of this study will help to identify elbow injuries in children who play baseball and to individualize treatment based on skeletal maturity.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
“It helps to humanize and individualize the vastness of the Holocaust and personalize history that is sometimes only communicated through statistics,” she added.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2022
“When you individualize and talk about individual stories, those stories are hard and very difficult,” Ms. Ardern told Newshub, a New Zealand news outlet, in February.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
“But in the end,” she adds, “there’s always going to be something to individualize your handwriting from somebody else.”
From Scientific American ● Aug. 2, 2022
Along with the Standard face had come name tags by which a person might individualize himself to the minimum necessary degree.
From The Standardized Man by Stephen Bartholomew
Until learning how our financial systems work, I took for granted the way our culture individualizes money.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2024
While golfers can provide launch monitor numbers as part of the interview process with Callaway’s Distance Fitting, Vrska said it is the one-on-one interaction that refines and individualizes the recommendations.
From Golf Digest ● May 8, 2020
Lee, rescuing the production with his veteran caginess, sharply individualizes Stokes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2018
“Archetypes of Femininity” is the theme of Cristian Ianculescu’s show at Waverly Street Gallery, but the artist individualizes his sculpted women with a variety of styles and materials.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2017
You see that Atticus uses broad generalities, and never once individualizes Mrs. Atticus.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
“We believe individualized neoantigen therapies have the potential to redefine how patients with completely resected stage IIB-IV melanoma are treated.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Meta "did not pause the system for the individualized, leave- and accommodation-neutral review that the law requires," the 71-page complaint said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The goal is to help clinicians monitor biological aging more precisely and design individualized treatments that target the underlying causes of age-related disease.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Ultimately, an individualized screening or monitoring process may be the safest approach, but we are still far from being able to precisely identify and intervene when an individual player may be at risk,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
He received no loving, individualized attention from a parent figure.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
“I think every single one of our routines, BJ did an incredible and phenomenal job of individualizing them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
But if we don’t openly talk about climate anxiety as something that is not only normal but also expected, we run the risk of further individualizing the problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
They do a good job of individualizing instruction and enrichment.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2019
Many physicians have been critical of rigid guidelines like this one because they don’t allow for individualizing treatment and appear to discount the doctor’s clinical judgment.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2018
It is the individualizing tendency which permeates the universe and which may be expressed either as a material law in the outer world, or as personal will-tendency in the inner world.
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus Matthew Jones
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