individuate

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

It is only after the second year, or somewhere around that time, that the child begins to individuate, and distinct individual traits and a personality manifest their outlines.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.