How to Use universalize in a Sentence

universalize

verb

• The spread of democracy and of the idea of human rights universalized the notion that citizens have a right to be heard.
  — James Traub, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• The creators wanted to universalize the story for audiences of all faiths and backgrounds.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• In each album, the artist is able to universalize her struggles without giving away all of the personal details.
  — Kristin J. Lieb, The Conversation, 17 June 2021
• It was judged old-fashioned—out of touch with social trends, conventional in form and naive in its attempts to universalize identity.
  — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• In rich countries with bountiful resources, policy-makers and experts debate the merits of universalizing pre-kindergarten, or how play can benefit toddlers.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz Africa, 24 July 2019
• Then some Euro-American chefs and critics use forms of Japanese minimalism and naturalism to universalize their presumption: things should taste of themselves.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• Rather than water down the varied experiences of trans people by attempting to universalize them, the comparison illuminates both Reese’s and Katrina’s plights.
  — Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2021
• Ramgopal doubts that communication between cultures benefits from an effort to universalize the message.
  — Sasha Geffen, Chicago Reader, 18 Oct. 2017
• Two, in trying to universalize his central couple’s experience, Levi seems to misunderstand what makes relationship dramas resonate.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2021
• And nearly all seek to universalize a stubbornly individual experience, insisting that their authors’ successful weight loss is proof positive that one person’s experience can and will work for every other person.
  — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 3 Apr. 2020
• Such a system would universalize opportunities granted to advantaged students to provide their disadvantaged peers greater academic opportunities.
  — WSJ, 11 May 2021
• Blockchain could simultaneously universalize and democratize that process, according to Esserman.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2019
• The universalizing Western order has encountered increasingly powerful resistance from without.
  — Peter Slezkine, The New Republic, 22 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024