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
They were enabled to individualize the universal because the most universal, the simplest motives, still formed the mainspring in the conduct of individuals.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler
“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
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
“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
Light comes into those open windows, the moving panorama of external nature passes before them, but distinct vision, which recognizes and individualizes objects, is something more than a mere passive, bodily sensation.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart
Health care providers can work with patients to develop individualized strategies for managing osteoarthritis.
From Science Daily ● 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
Those operations focused on individualized investigations of specific people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
A recent report in the Journal of Periodontology predicts that technology such as AI, diagnostic saliva tests and sensor-based monitoring will allow for more early detection and individualized treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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
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
When the script doesn’t provide the individualizing details that transcend stereotypes, the performances do.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2019
Can we avoid individualizing oppression and not use the movement as our personal therapy space?
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2019
In making use of Apis in every form of intermittent fever, we not only act in strict accordance with the homœopathic law generally, but we fulfil all the requirements of the individualizing method.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by C. W. Wolf
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