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individuate

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








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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

But at varying points, each tries to individuate themselves from their father, and much of the suspense lies in how Rupert schemes to draw them back under his influence.

From Washington Post Sep. 23, 2022

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

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

In fact, some most "magnetic" individuate make 'graveyards of their stomachs' as a Mental Scientist puts it.

From The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by Mukerji, A. P.

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

Later, the film’s only individuated black performer, a girl around 5, appears perched on Whiteman’s capacious lap.

From New York Times May 10, 2016

Many of the people in the paintings are sharply individuated.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“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

It’s a little like when we were talking about childhood and individuating.

From New York Times May 14, 2018

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint




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