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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“They want to institutionalize it rather than individualize it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 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
Then I let these characters speak for themselves in my mind, and if they do not individualize themselves, I never feel that I can portray them satisfactorily.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Helen C. Black
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
“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
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
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
If the commission is going to do its job well, it must invest in individualized enforcement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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
“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
Can we avoid individualizing oppression and not use the movement as our personal therapy space?
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2019
They do a good job of individualizing instruction and enrichment.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2019
He should endeavor to give a reader an idea of how they look, by describing them, and of how they talk, by individualizing their speech.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
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