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 companies said they individualize treatment based on patient needs, and some said their patients had more severe autism on average.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
At least part of the investigation centers on a failed chatbot project that was supposed to revolutionize and individualize education.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
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
The conflict, of course, is not between two disembodied attributes, but between two persons, and the writer of such a story must individualize them.
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
“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
“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
That's the pestle that pounds territory into crumbs, individualizes fortunes, and takes from them their needful stability; decomposing ever and never recomposing,—a state of things which must end in the ruin of France.
From The Village Rector by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
"As these trials move forward, individualized estimates, including the biomarker's prognostic value, could guide earlier treatment and monitoring decisions."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Maryland passed legislation this year requiring prices on electronic shelf labels at grocery stores to remain fixed for at least one business day and prohibiting stores from using customer data to set individualized prices.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
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
“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
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
Upon two last features, his use of titles and his individualizing of the orchestral instruments, we cannot dwell in detail.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding
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