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
The production would be stronger if more effort were made to further individualize the subordinate characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023
“This is allowing individual parents to individualize a curriculum for their own worldview.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 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
The writer endeavors to reveal the natures of his people and to individualize them in a more superficial but equally important sense.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
Until learning how our financial systems work, I took for granted the way our culture individualizes money.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2024
The film invokes, individualizes, multiplies, takes apart and then wackily reassembles these enduring tropes.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
“I never thought I could be this good, or have a coach who individualizes workouts that fit you perfectly,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
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
It becomes conscious of itself as individual and it individualizes the world; it is the one discovering itself among the many.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
The agency still could cancel funding if recipients violate their grant terms, but it would have to provide an individualized explanation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
CEO Tom Hale says the company is only scratching the surface when it comes to the type of individualized health guidance AI can provide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“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
Gone was the desperate, urgent, intense feeling of being at home; rare was the experience of feeling myself individualized by family intimates.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Walt Disney took his own liberties, experimentally drafting the raven-haired beauty as both a redhead and a blond, and individualizing the dwarfs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
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
All the glory and all the disgrace of our race lies in the power of individualizing which is divinely breathed into our veins.
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
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