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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

Photojournalists have deployed a familiar toolbox of artful devices to distill these panoramas of destruction down to human scale, particularize the war and speak to a wider public.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2018

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

At this point of our conversation, Middleton repeated to me a remark of Dr. Kirby's—which I will not particularize further than to say that it contained the Kirbyly coined word—oatmealish.

From East Angels by Constance Fenimore Woolson

“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

No matter how you slice the statute, Sutton wrote, the fact remains that “the FTC is free to micromanage every particularized decision the Authority makes.”

From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2026

In the ruling from the district court that heard the case, the judge found that the Bost did not have standing because he failed to show “concrete, particularized, and imminent injuries.”

From Salon ● Oct. 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

A long table was occupied by an industrious company that broke the absorbed silence only by explosive requests for particularized dishes.

From Mountain Blood A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

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

So much the worse, she added in her own mind, not particularizing what it was that was so much the worse.

From Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan