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The affidavit for a search warrant must particularize the federal statute that law enforcement believes has been broken by the subject.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2022

Wagner works hard to particularize these women, but the play, which has over the years lost an intermission and been streamlined into one 95-minute act, has trouble getting started.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2022

Photojournalists have deployed a familiar toolbox of artful devices to distill these panoramas of destruction down to human scale, particularize the war and speak to a wider public.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2018

Of course, the real art lies in the superstructure, in how Sophocles, Fitzgerald and Tolkien particularize this general archetype and make it into something fresh and uniquely their own.

From Washington Post ● May 12, 2016

We have spoken of the general arrangement of the suburban garden, and must now proceed to particularize.

From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle

“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

This policy, she explains, “tramples the constitutional requirement that officers must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.”

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 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

In her order, Cannon wrote that the government's request to keep the list of witnesses secret "does not offer a particularized basis to justify sealing the list from public view."

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2023

Species of Sins of Defamation.—Since the species of sins must be particularized in confessions, the question of the distinction between defamations has practical importance.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan

In her memoirs, Ernaux plunges us headfirst into her experiences, particularizing her recollections with cultural, commercial and personal artifacts — news stories, groceries, snapshots — and distilling insights from her present perspective.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2022

In the absence of further particularizing information or evidence, this allegation should be treated as not having the potential to be credible.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021

That’s a problem built into the bloated mash-up of genres: Comedy is based on particularizing human behavior, but allegory is based on generalizing it.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019

The result: the court was stuck particularizing its position for the next 20 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Secretary arraigned the General's conduct in the severest terms, particularizing his blunders, and branding them.

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George W. Julian