universalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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For Kant, an action or decision is moral if you can universalize it, which he formulates in the categorical imperative.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
This overhaul will, presumably, continue to universalize the Apple enthusiast’s experience across devices, especially in tandem with new continuity-focused features like Universal Control.
From The Verge ● Jun. 6, 2022
In “Telescope,” Alameddine attempts to universalize Mina’s experience on Lesbos, but not out of a callow urge to suggest that her dilemmas — or yours — are comparable to the Syrians’.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2021
In each album, the artist is able to universalize her struggles without giving away all of the personal details.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2021
The Redeemers who overthrew Reconstruction were inclined to retain such segregation practices as had already emerged, but they displayed no apparent disposition to expand or universalize the system.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
In both, a universalized norm gets displayed, yet it’s simultaneously individualized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Having just written an entire article about the dangers of universalized single-cause explanations, though, I would be remiss in putting the blame for dysfunction and discontent entirely on the media.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2024
Kirsten Scheid, the show’s curator, argues that creators the world over universalized the tradition and expanded upon it.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
“Mr. Brook, synthesizing all his previous theatrical inventions, did nothing less than attempt to transform Hindu myth into universalized art, accessible to any culture,” theater critic and journalist Margaret Croyden wrote in the Times.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022
His own judgment upon the deep matters of the human conscience was stern enough, but it was a universalized judgment, and by no means the result of a Calvinism which he hated.
From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Bliss Perry
If someone were to type universalizing words such as “everyone” or “always,” it might ask what specific person or incident the user has in mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
I think we need to get back to improving and universalizing high-quality developmental experiences for kids who are raised in stable, well-resourced families.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2021
It was no accident that the Buddha, with his universalizing meditation on the human condition, appeared at the same time as Heraclitus in Greece and the Taoist teacher Lao Tzu in China.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
Just as television has been a powerful force in the popularization of pro football, it has been irreplaceable in the universalizing of the draft.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2019
It is rather a means of universalizing the refinements of the intellect, the substantive idealities of imagination, by enveloping them in an elementary, primitive feeling which they call forth.
From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry
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