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But I’ve found that when interventions oversimplify and universalize complicated feelings under the banner of burnout, they compound my sense of losing control, depersonalizing an experience already marred by depersonalization.

From Slate ● May 17, 2023

For Kant, an action or decision is moral if you can universalize it, which he formulates in the categorical imperative.

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

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

Kirsten Scheid, the show’s curator, argues that creators the world over universalized the tradition and expanded upon it.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

“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

It is by this abstract moral element that Hawthorne's art is universalized.

From Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Edward Woodberry

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

Sometimes parody, in its effort to dismantle, ends up universalizing, and can tease out something true from the subject of its humor that might not have otherwise gotten the spotlight.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2018

This generalizing or universalizing is frequently supposed to be the characteristic activity of "reason."

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode