historicize
verb
his·tor·i·cize
hi-ˈstȯr-ə-ˌsīz 
-ˈstär-
historicized; historicizing
: to make historical
: to use historical material
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Now, the institutionalization of the East Village space in 2019 serves to historicize this incredible legacy.
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Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 4 May 2023
So often politicized and problematized and historicized and memorialized and so rarely, in today’s literary novel, simply described.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
There is perhaps nothing harder or less rewarding to historicize than a bruised ego.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
It is used to historicize the conflict between the family and their nemesis, the white Landry/Boudreaux families.
—Tanisha C. Ford, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2022
Perhaps Fukuyama’s evolution is a cue to instead historicize liberalism as a regional ideology that has shaped a few large countries, over a few recent centuries.
—Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022
Keret said his father fought to humanize and historicize the Holocaust, to see it as more than a story of unmitigated oppression.
—Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
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Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 4 May 2023
So often politicized and problematized and historicized and memorialized and so rarely, in today’s literary novel, simply described.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
There is perhaps nothing harder or less rewarding to historicize than a bruised ego.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
It is used to historicize the conflict between the family and their nemesis, the white Landry/Boudreaux families.
—Tanisha C. Ford, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2022
Perhaps Fukuyama’s evolution is a cue to instead historicize liberalism as a regional ideology that has shaped a few large countries, over a few recent centuries.
—Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022
Keret said his father fought to humanize and historicize the Holocaust, to see it as more than a story of unmitigated oppression.
—Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
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“Historicize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/historicize. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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