particularized
Example Sentences
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“Mere offense, disagreement, or distaste does not qualify as a concrete and particularized injury,” the majority said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Instead, it argues that immigration officers are violating a federal statute that permits a warrantless arrest only when agents have “reason to believe,” supported by particularized evidence, that an individual is in the country unlawfully.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025
The ruling permits federal agents to resume raids across Los Angeles and surrounding counties — raids where people are seized with no warrant, no particularized cause for suspicion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit revived the case in 2020, concluding: "A rebuffed request for information to which the requester is statutorily entitled is a concrete, particularized and individualized personal injury."
From Reuters ● Jun. 26, 2023
Mr. Browning answered, "Lilies are of all colors in Palestine—one sort is particularized as white with a dark blue spot and streak—the water lily, lotus, which I think I meant, is blue altogether."
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
