particularize
verb
par·tic·u·lar·ize
pər-ˈti-k(yə-)lə-ˌrīz 
pə-,
also pär-
particularized; particularizing
: to state in detail : specify
: to go into details
Examples of particularize in a Sentence
My lawyer advised me to particularize all my complaints against my landlord.
He said he had been treated rudely, then went on to particularize.
Recent Examples on the Web
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.
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New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
Within this prison, Ms. Nwandu has been careful to particularize and humanize her main characters so that the tragedy is not just theoretical or surreal.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
His Democratic opponent was quick to particularize the term for low-information voters: Barbour had lobbied not only for Big Oil, nuclear power plants, and some more-or-less savory foreign governments.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
The Justice Department, which intervened on Trump’s behalf in New York, has taken a narrower approach, saying Vance must prove ‘‘particularized need’’ for the records before they are released to a grand jury.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019
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.
—New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
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.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
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New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
Within this prison, Ms. Nwandu has been careful to particularize and humanize her main characters so that the tragedy is not just theoretical or surreal.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
His Democratic opponent was quick to particularize the term for low-information voters: Barbour had lobbied not only for Big Oil, nuclear power plants, and some more-or-less savory foreign governments.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
The Justice Department, which intervened on Trump’s behalf in New York, has taken a narrower approach, saying Vance must prove ‘‘particularized need’’ for the records before they are released to a grand jury.
—BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019
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.
—New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
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.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
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particularize
verb
par·tic·u·lar·ize
pə(r)-ˈtik-(yə-)lə-ˌrīz
particularized; particularizing
: to state in detail : specify
particularization
noun
-ˌtik-(yə-)lə-rə-ˈzā-shən
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