universalize
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But once you universalize your action—and all nonstudents begin to lie—the bookseller will catch on and likely begin to ask for identification.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
This overhaul will, presumably, continue to universalize the Apple enthusiast’s experience across devices, especially in tandem with new continuity-focused features like Universal Control.
From The Verge ● Jun. 6, 2022
In “Telescope,” Alameddine attempts to universalize Mina’s experience on Lesbos, but not out of a callow urge to suggest that her dilemmas — or yours — are comparable to the Syrians’.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2021
In each album, the artist is able to universalize her struggles without giving away all of the personal details.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2021
The Redeemers who overthrew Reconstruction were inclined to retain such segregation practices as had already emerged, but they displayed no apparent disposition to expand or universalize the system.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
In both, a universalized norm gets displayed, yet it’s simultaneously individualized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Having just written an entire article about the dangers of universalized single-cause explanations, though, I would be remiss in putting the blame for dysfunction and discontent entirely on the media.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2024
“Mr. Brook, synthesizing all his previous theatrical inventions, did nothing less than attempt to transform Hindu myth into universalized art, accessible to any culture,” theater critic and journalist Margaret Croyden wrote in the Times.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022
Yet, if everyone lied—that is if we universalized lying—then we would no longer achieve our desired end.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
With Locke, with Smith, with Hegel and with Marx, the ultimate hypothesis is always the summary of some special experience universalized.
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski
If someone were to type universalizing words such as “everyone” or “always,” it might ask what specific person or incident the user has in mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
I think we need to get back to improving and universalizing high-quality developmental experiences for kids who are raised in stable, well-resourced families.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2021
Just as television has been a powerful force in the popularization of pro football, it has been irreplaceable in the universalizing of the draft.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2019
Norton’s apparent belief to the contrary—that complicated people are best evaluated with a simple and universalizing ambivalence— would not, for an ideal newspaper, be among the traits sought in a hire tasked with analyzing “power.”
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2018
The second "quality" is the attractive, gravitating tendency which binds whole with whole as an organizing, universalizing energy.
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus Matthew Jones
