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
• 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
• The creators wanted to universalize the story for audiences of all faiths and backgrounds.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• 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
• Nathan has penned a script that aims to universalize Ali’s story, but this attempt makes the character sometimes register as too hazily drawn.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2022
• What was humanism but an attempt to universalize and install the preferences of the ruling class, the chief members of which were white, male, and Western?
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• In 1803, Ohioans universalized white male suffrage, and failed to extend the franchise to Black men by only one vote.
  — Phil Christman, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
• With interest in the diet increasing, the trend of female carnivores has had the effect of universalizing its appeal.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• Subhashish Panigrahi sat down with him to explore their plans to universalize Internet access as a human right.
  — Ashoka, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• Groeningen wisely universalizes a story that could have played as a privileged, unpigmented vision of drug addiction.
  — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
• As satire, Next to Heaven is unintelligible, as though someone is universalizing their own hangups and then skewering them for clout.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
• Ramgopal doubts that communication between cultures benefits from an effort to universalize the message.
  — Sasha Geffen, Chicago Reader, 18 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Concurrently, the idea of local differences is suspect, a myth that in Europe obscures a medieval mission to universalize dishes, which Montanari highlights in this book as well.
  — Susan H. Gordon, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• 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
• Jesus universalized this obligation.
  — Big Think, 26 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Centuries ago, authors wrote errata lists for the same reason job applicants intentionally place typos in their cover letters today—to resist the universalizing force of new technology, and to prove that there is a real human behind their work.
  — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
• The group recommends using Bearwise, an organization created by biologists across the country to universalize the advice people are given about coexisting with bears.
  — Eva Flowe may 20, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2026
• 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
• According to Ehrman, Jesus’s teachings universalized earlier Jewish ethics by extending the duty to care for the poor, oppressed, and needy beyond one’s own community to include all people.
  — Big Think, 26 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Leguizamo hopes that his play will help universalize the Latino experience, in the same way that works by Black playwrights like Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson have become part of the theatrical canon.
  — Raul A. Reyes, NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
• The universalizing Western order has encountered increasingly powerful resistance from without.
  — Peter Slezkine, The New Republic, 22 May 2018