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But even at this velocity — Mays must run miles each show — he manages to particularize each of the Cratchit children and most of the guests at the Christmas party of Fred, Scrooge’s nephew.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

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

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

We repaired the dam and saw-mill, and made other improvements which I can not now particularize.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey

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

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

In her order, Cannon wrote that the government's request to keep the list of witnesses secret "does not offer a particularized basis to justify sealing the list from public view."

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2023

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit revived the case in 2020, concluding: "A rebuffed request for information to which the requester is statutorily entitled is a concrete, particularized and individualized personal injury."

From Reuters ● Jun. 26, 2023

She insisted, McGeorge particularized, that the Meekers took no money for their sittings.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

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

Prince Karl's farther movements are not worth particularizing.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas