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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

Both components of belief, the ethical and the cosmological, are universalized.

From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry

It’s the kind of work that you expect to find at a show as noteworthy as the Biennial—powerful, universalizing, transportive—but one that this year is largely an exception to the other items on view.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Because the pandemic has affected everyone, we naturally assume that there must be some common experience to be found, that with the disease has come a set of universalizing truths.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2021

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

This is the complete universalizing of our moral obligations—stripping our sense of duty of everything that is particular and local and isolated.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various