criticizing

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Yet something about Sunday’s ceremony made it hard to get too worked up about all the historicizing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

In the years since, cookbooks devoted to Asian food have continued to adopt a tone of expertise, parsing regional differences or historicizing spice tolerance, approaching their subjects with a kind of scholarly reverence.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 23, 2015

Dramatically, “Written on Skin” derives some of its tension and power from its historicizing frame.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2015

But now he is dead and the work of historicizing is well underway.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2013

But it was otherwise when the same events came to be contemplated by the historicizing Greeks, who could not be satisfied without either finding or inventing satisfactory bonds of coherence between the separate events.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John