particularize
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But even at this velocity — Mays must run miles each show — he manages to particularize each of the Cratchit children and most of the guests at the Christmas party of Fred, Scrooge’s nephew.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
The affidavit for a search warrant must particularize the federal statute that law enforcement believes has been broken by the subject.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2022
Wagner works hard to particularize these women, but the play, which has over the years lost an intermission and been streamlined into one 95-minute act, has trouble getting started.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
Of course, the real art lies in the superstructure, in how Sophocles, Fitzgerald and Tolkien particularize this general archetype and make it into something fresh and uniquely their own.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2016
I rambled away with my two horses out west, and I am now anxious, for obvious reasons, not to particularize too closely where I went.
From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Weitemeyer
“To the contrary, we have repeatedly held that mere offense, disagreement, or distaste does not qualify as a concrete and particularized injury under Article III” of the Constitution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
This policy, she explains, “tramples the constitutional requirement that officers must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.”
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
The ruling permits federal agents to resume raids across Los Angeles and surrounding counties — raids where people are seized with no warrant, no particularized cause for suspicion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
In her order, Cannon wrote that the government's request to keep the list of witnesses secret "does not offer a particularized basis to justify sealing the list from public view."
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2023
The plain are often particularized as elegant; tastes vary: even a sour look I have heard admired as sensible, cold manners eulogized as correct.
From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley
In her memoirs, Ernaux plunges us headfirst into her experiences, particularizing her recollections with cultural, commercial and personal artifacts — news stories, groceries, snapshots — and distilling insights from her present perspective.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2022
In the absence of further particularizing information or evidence, this allegation should be treated as not having the potential to be credible.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
That’s a problem built into the bloated mash-up of genres: Comedy is based on particularizing human behavior, but allegory is based on generalizing it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019
The result: the court was stuck particularizing its position for the next 20 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prince Karl's farther movements are not worth particularizing.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle
