particularize
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But even at this velocity — Mays must run miles each show — he manages to particularize each of the Cratchit children and most of the guests at the Christmas party of Fred, Scrooge’s nephew.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
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
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
Other Persian borders are most interesting, although they may not particularize any class or locality.
From The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by W. D. (William DeLancey) Ellwanger
In the ruling from the district court that heard the case, the judge found that the Bost did not have standing because he failed to show “concrete, particularized, and imminent injuries.”
From Salon ● Oct. 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
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
They added, “This information appears to have had no individualized nexus to particularized criminal conduct, but was rather a data dump of BoA customers’ transactions over a three-day period.
From Washington Times ● May 26, 2023
In it I had particularized my faults and sins, and said little of the favors of God.
From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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
We are now," he continued, in that particularizing manner which distinguished him--"we are now close upon the Norwegian coast--in the sixty-eighth degree of latitude--in the great province of Nordland--and in the dreary district of Lofoden.
From Elson Grammar School Literature v4 by William H. Elson
