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
But the Netflix limited series is such a compelling watch because it takes care to individuate Alex’s story.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021
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
It is only after the second year, or somewhere around that time, that the child begins to individuate, and distinct individual traits and a personality manifest their outlines.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
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
“While taking separate honeymoons may seem extreme, highly individuated couples may view their independence and separate experiences as a strength of their relationship,” Ms. Bobby said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 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 this process is the cement which binds the whole together; this is the individuating principle that makes England what England is.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
