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

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

Robust peer friendships allow adolescents to safely individuate from their parents, but in these settings, peers can feel pitted against each other.

From Salon • May 1, 2022

Second, a 2-year-old is starting to individuate, meaning he’s finding his own mind and owning his body.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2022

Nor must we understand the language only of the poet, but his particular turn of thoughts and expression, which are the characters that distinguish, and, as it were, individuate him from all other writers.

From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross