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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

I should think it's from a sense of compunction for the net you've led us into, that you all particularize our attentions, whenever they point near St. George's, by that very suggestive little adjective 'serious!'

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

“To the contrary, we have repeatedly held that mere offense, disagreement, or distaste does not qualify as a concrete and particularized injury under Article III” of the Constitution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

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

Various subsequent importations took place, which need not be particularized.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings

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 HONEY-SUCKLE, Caprifolium, having no native name, is too well known, and too closely connected with the home associations of all to need particularizing.

From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson