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 an attempt to universalize emission standards and crackdown on carbon havens, the tax would charge importers of steel, aluminum, iron, fertilizer, cement, and electricity the equivalent of the EU’s domestic carbon price.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• 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: 13 Oct 2024