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
All this is an affair of intelligence; it would be to insult my readers not to suppose them capable of supplying to the details what it is elsewhere impossible to particularize.
From New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. by F. Baucher
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
The courts are limited to settling disputes in which the plaintiffs can show “concrete and particularized injury.”
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023
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
She insisted, McGeorge particularized, that the Meekers took no money for their sittings.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
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
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I am extremely happy at this event, as Bell’s volatile temper made me sometimes afraid of her chusing inconsiderately: their marriage is not yet declared, for some family reasons, not worth particularizing to your Lordship.
From The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke