universalize
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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
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
His contention that universalized opportunity would greatly augment social achievement is, however, fundamentally sound.
From The Super Race: An American Problem by Scott Nearing
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
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
Of course, there’s also something beautiful and universalizing about bibliotherapy that perhaps makes it ripe for a sociopolitical moment where many feel more and more isolated.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 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
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
