particularize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make particular.
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to mention or indicate specifically; specify.
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to state or treat in detail.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to treat in detail; give details (about)
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(intr) to go into detail
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of particularize
From the Middle French word particulariser, dating back to 1580–90. See particular, -ize
Example Sentences
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But even at this velocity — Mays must run miles each show — he manages to particularize each of the Cratchit children and most of the guests at the Christmas party of Fred, Scrooge’s nephew.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
The affidavit for a search warrant must particularize the federal statute that law enforcement believes has been broken by the subject.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2022
Photojournalists have deployed a familiar toolbox of artful devices to distill these panoramas of destruction down to human scale, particularize the war and speak to a wider public.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2018
Of course, the real art lies in the superstructure, in how Sophocles, Fitzgerald and Tolkien particularize this general archetype and make it into something fresh and uniquely their own.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2016
As soon as they particularize their mission fails; the one ceases to be a poet and the other a radical.
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald
“Mere offense, disagreement, or distaste does not qualify as a concrete and particularized injury,” the majority said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The ruling permits federal agents to resume raids across Los Angeles and surrounding counties — raids where people are seized with no warrant, no particularized cause for suspicion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
The courts are limited to settling disputes in which the plaintiffs can show “concrete and particularized injury.”
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023
In her order, Cannon wrote that the government's request to keep the list of witnesses secret "does not offer a particularized basis to justify sealing the list from public view."
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2023
Species of Sins of Defamation.—Since the species of sins must be particularized in confessions, the question of the distinction between defamations has practical importance.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
In her memoirs, Ernaux plunges us headfirst into her experiences, particularizing her recollections with cultural, commercial and personal artifacts — news stories, groceries, snapshots — and distilling insights from her present perspective.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2022
In the absence of further particularizing information or evidence, this allegation should be treated as not having the potential to be credible.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
That’s a problem built into the bloated mash-up of genres: Comedy is based on particularizing human behavior, but allegory is based on generalizing it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019
The result: the court was stuck particularizing its position for the next 20 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
We are now," he continued, in that particularizing manner which distinguished him--"we are now close upon the Norwegian coast--in the sixty-eighth degree of latitude--in the great province of Nordland--and in the dreary district of Lofoden.
From Elson Grammar School Literature v4 by William H. Elson
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