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
At this point of our conversation, Middleton repeated to me a remark of Dr. Kirby's—which I will not particularize further than to say that it contained the Kirbyly coined word—oatmealish.
From East Angels by Constance Fenimore Woolson
“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
No matter how you slice the statute, Sutton wrote, the fact remains that “the FTC is free to micromanage every particularized decision the Authority makes.”
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 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
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
People called it the "cheese" and some even particularized and called it the "Camembert."
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
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
It seems delicacy in expatiating on the legacy; particularizing more gratitude would have lessened the evidence of friendship, and made the 'justice done to Gray's character look more like a debt.,_
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
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