universalize

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

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

His contention that universalized opportunity would greatly augment social achievement is, however, fundamentally sound.

From The Super Race: An American Problem by Scott Nearing

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

Norton’s apparent belief to the contrary—that complicated people are best evaluated with a simple and universalizing ambivalence— would not, for an ideal newspaper, be among the traits sought in a hire tasked with analyzing “power.”

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2018

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

Thus every product in nature is the result of a positive, centrifugal, accelerating, universalizing force, and a negative, limiting, retarding, individualizing one.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg