ADJECTIVE
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directed toward a specific object
particularized thinking as distinct from stereotyped sloganeering
How To Use particularized In A Sentence
- If “instances of my ungrateful behaviour had been particularized, I would have answered to them.” George Washington’s First War
- Palestine -- one sort is particularized as _white_ with a dark blue spot and streak -- the water lily, lotos, which I think I meant, is _blue_ altogether. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
- A farmer is entitled to a certain particularized tax treatment.
- These four were just one vote away in Massachusetts v. EPA from blocking judicial review of the legality of EPA's failure to regulate greenhouse gases on the ground that global warming does not cause "particularized" injury. Legal Theory Blog
- We are now convinced that proponents' claim to standing depends on proponents' particularized interests created by state law or their authority under state law to defend the constitutionality of the initiative," the panel said. Prop 8 Challenge Sent To California Supreme Court
- God that he would make the word effectual to the salvation of the soul; still being grieved lest the enemy should take the word away from the conscience, and so it should become unfruitful: wherefore I have labored so to speak the word, as that thereby, if it were possible, the sin and person guilty might be particularized by it. The Riches of Bunyan
- We also know that Huemer has arbitrarily elevated on source of disagreement and downplayed his others using an arbitrary and particularized conception of the world. Election Prediction: Voting will be Irrational, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- A few short quotations may illustrate, in a more particularized fashion, some of the poem's flaws and felicities. The Times Literary Supplement
- Title pages were further particularized for readers with enticing code words like spy, secret and revealed (dévoilé). The Times Literary Supplement
- But his evaluative criterium was restricted to the matching of individual preferences with political outcomes in particularized decisions, rather than over any sequence. James M. Buchanan Jr. - Prize Lecture