individuate
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The Jonas Brothers in 2023 offer cool adult-contemporary sounds for an audience that grew up with them, similarly navigating the life that emerges once you begin to individuate, become intimate and start families.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Over time, when it becomes a good business, we will individuate and make our own thing.
From The Verge ● May 3, 2022
Robust peer friendships allow adolescents to safely individuate from their parents, but in these settings, peers can feel pitted against each other.
From Salon ● May 1, 2022
Second, a 2-year-old is starting to individuate, meaning he’s finding his own mind and owning his body.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
Nor must we understand the language only of the poet, but his particular turn of thoughts and expression, which are the characters that distinguish, and, as it were, individuate him from all other writers.
From Early Theories of Translation by Flora Ross Amos
Western traditions want to assert an autonomous being who is strongly individuated from other beings.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
“It kind of has to be a collective support structure, not an individuated one of. And how do we do that without real government policy?”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
And in a further twist, they’re all priced the same regardless of edition size: Since each print in “This One” is individuated, the 25-count one is no rarer than the 100-count.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2020
Such a space can represent the wish image of air travel: a personalized adventure, the individuated feeling of being spirited up and across a continent or ocean with no apparent obstacles.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2020
Many of the people in the paintings are sharply individuated.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Each dancer moves with intriguing, individuating specificity: this one shaking, that one twitching sinuously or twisting like the head of a sprinkler.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
“Counter to what we expected, the individuating information didn’t reduce or remove bias,” Ellingson said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021
To be “one of Harvey’s victims” is—has to be—the opposite of individuating.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2020
By individuating their lives in fiercely lyrical language, each in their own way sings, critiques, and dances the body electric.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2016
To form, the dynamic element or principle, it owed all its individuating qualities.
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh