particularize

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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

In real knowledge, there is a particularizing and a generalizing function working together.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John