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universalize

[yoo-nuh-vur-suh-lahyz] / ˌju nəˈvɜr səˌlaɪz /
VERB
make universal
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But once you universalize your action—and all nonstudents begin to lie—the bookseller will catch on and likely begin to ask for identification.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

This overhaul will, presumably, continue to universalize the Apple enthusiast’s experience across devices, especially in tandem with new continuity-focused features like Universal Control.

From The Verge Jun. 6, 2022

In “Telescope,” Alameddine attempts to universalize Mina’s experience on Lesbos, but not out of a callow urge to suggest that her dilemmas — or yours — are comparable to the Syrians’.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2021

In each album, the artist is able to universalize her struggles without giving away all of the personal details.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2021

The Redeemers who overthrew Reconstruction were inclined to retain such segregation practices as had already emerged, but they displayed no apparent disposition to expand or universalize the system.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Having just written an entire article about the dangers of universalized single-cause explanations, though, I would be remiss in putting the blame for dysfunction and discontent entirely on the media.

From Slate Dec. 19, 2024

“Mr. Brook, synthesizing all his previous theatrical inventions, did nothing less than attempt to transform Hindu myth into universalized art, accessible to any culture,” theater critic and journalist Margaret Croyden wrote in the Times.

From Washington Post Jul. 5, 2022

Yet, if everyone lied—that is if we universalized lying—then we would no longer achieve our desired end.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

Moore’s paintbrush layers history in evocative ways, while inserting himself into a universalized scene pulls social havoc into the present.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2022

Scientific discoveries universalized the methods of production, and henceforth it was useless to pay an exorbitant price abroad for what could easily be produced at home.

From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince

If someone were to type universalizing words such as “everyone” or “always,” it might ask what specific person or incident the user has in mind.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

It was no accident that the Buddha, with his universalizing meditation on the human condition, appeared at the same time as Heraclitus in Greece and the Taoist teacher Lao Tzu in China.

From New York Times May 11, 2020

Just as television has been a powerful force in the popularization of pro football, it has been irreplaceable in the universalizing of the draft.

From Seattle Times Apr. 23, 2019

It is a story within the bigger context of American medicine, and Oshinsky does a ­less-than-adequate job of universalizing from his material.

From Washington Post Nov. 18, 2016

Thus every product in nature is the result of a positive, centrifugal, accelerating, universalizing force, and a negative, limiting, retarding, individualizing one.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg




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