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universalize

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


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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

In each album, the artist is able to universalize her struggles without giving away all of the personal details.

From Salon Jul. 5, 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

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

Moore’s paintbrush layers history in evocative ways, while inserting himself into a universalized scene pulls social havoc into the present.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2022

Its object was some universalized emotion derived from a natural fact.

From Japanese Prints by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop

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

Because the pandemic has affected everyone, we naturally assume that there must be some common experience to be found, that with the disease has come a set of universalizing truths.

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2021

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

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

For it is along this loop-line of "memories and ideas of the distant" that poetry wins its generalizing or universalizing power.

From A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry




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