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

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

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

“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

The illustrations that are given in this book show in how many ways these rules of action are now being universalized.

From Civics and Health by William H. Allen

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

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

Different people, of differing temperament and tradition, have sought oneness, this steadying and universalizing thing, in various manners.

From First and Last Things by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells