individuate

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The Jonas Brothers in 2023 offer cool adult-contemporary sounds for an audience that grew up with them, similarly navigating the life that emerges once you begin to individuate, become intimate and start families.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023

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

The relationships are so close and you have to start to individuate in terms of roles and who is getting what information.

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

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