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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Instead, they said, they have their own set of standards and individualize programming based on specific family needs and factors such as location and affordability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
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
“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
At other times he comes forward, reaching his right arm p. 143as far as he can over the desk, as if anxious to individualize his appeal, and to force it home to every heart.
From The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
The film invokes, individualizes, multiplies, takes apart and then wackily reassembles these enduring tropes.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
Childress, who was an actress before she became a playwright, individualizes every character with economic strokes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
It's the delivery that individualizes each, with tonal differences that make Gwen Stefani's take invigorating and upbeat where Mark Hollis' original has a doleful air.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 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
The features might be perfectly correct, but that inscrutable something which individualizes the face was lacking.
From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Baker credits the turnaround to the more individualized shopping experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
“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
This approach aims to use biological measurements, genetics, metabolism, and other personal characteristics to design dietary recommendations that are more individualized than standard nutrition advice.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
The Fourth Amendment, the court reasoned, forbids the police from seizing people and searching them without some individualized suspicion that they have committed or are committing a crime.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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
When the script doesn’t provide the individualizing details that transcend stereotypes, the performances do.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2019
They do a good job of individualizing instruction and enrichment.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2019
Besides his humour and acuteness, besides even his profundity, I find in him an exceptional power of individualizing.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
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