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universalize

[yoo-nuh-vur-suh-lahyz] / ˌju nəˈvɜr səˌlaɪz /
VERB
make universal
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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

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

It was no accident that the Buddha, with his universalizing meditation on the human condition, appeared at the same time as Heraclitus in Greece and the Taoist teacher Lao Tzu in China.

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

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

Both the selection and the arrangement have been made with this further purpose in view— "to keep the heart warm, reinforcing all its good motives, preforming choices, universalizing sympathies."

From Short Stories for English Courses by Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding




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