particularize

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

But the intimate acquaintance with the Codex which he has thus acquired has conducted him to certain other results, which it is of the utmost importance that we should particularize and explain.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William