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individuate

[in-duh-vij-oo-ayt] / ˌɪn dəˈvɪdʒ uˌeɪt /








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The relationships are so close and you have to start to individuate in terms of roles and who is getting what information.

From The Verge ● May 3, 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

Fungi are also notoriously elusive: They mostly lay underground, sprout unpredictably, and their intricately tangled networks can make them difficult to individuate as single specimens.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2021

When death comes in bulk as constantly as it does in America, there is little time to individuate victims, to mourn them as singular persons, the way those who loved and knew them will.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2021

In particular, it may be said of individuality that, while the tendency to individuate is everywhere present in the organized world, it is everywhere opposed by the tendency towards reproduction.

From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell

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

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

One wishes, at times, that the voices were more individuated.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2019

Many of the people in the paintings are sharply individuated.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

For the common nature is understood as apart from the individuating principles; whereas such is not its mode of existence outside the soul.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas


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