individuate

Example Sentences

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But at varying points, each tries to individuate themselves from their father, and much of the suspense lies in how Rupert schemes to draw them back under his influence.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

I try to make sure it’s all the steps along the route as you individuate from your family and become a professional.

From The Verge • May 3, 2022

Fungi are also notoriously elusive: They mostly lay underground, sprout unpredictably, and their intricately tangled networks can make them difficult to individuate as single specimens.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2021

When death comes in bulk as constantly as it does in America, there is little time to individuate victims, to mourn them as singular persons, the way those who loved and knew them will.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2021

Aristotle avoided the question whether form or matter individuate; he held that there is no form and no matter extrinsic to the individual.

From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford