universalize
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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
A chant that was intended to universalize the Kurdish struggle to women's democratic movements worldwide has been watered down.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
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
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
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
Yet, if everyone lied—that is if we universalized lying—then we would no longer achieve our desired end.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
His own judgment upon the deep matters of the human conscience was stern enough, but it was a universalized judgment, and by no means the result of a Calvinism which he hated.
From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Bliss Perry
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
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
It is a story within the bigger context of American medicine, and Oshinsky does a less-than-adequate job of universalizing from his material.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2016
With the establishment of exchanges for conducting international buying and selling the universalizing of wheat was complete.
From Deep Furrows by Hopkins Moorhouse
