particularizes

verb

present tense third-person singular of particularize
1
as in individualizes

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2
as in details

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for particularizes
  1. differentiates
  2. details
  3. customizes
  4. enumerates
  5. characterizes
  6. itemizes
  7. reveals
  8. discloses
Verb
  • One thing that differentiates Netflix from its competitors is its wealth of international content.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 6 Nov. 2026
  • What differentiates this unsparing epic from the scores of other stories about the Greatest Generation, however, is that some of its characters are good at football.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of differentiates
Verb
  • Here, the movie authentically details what being a wheelchair user, a blind person, or a deaf person was like in 1977.
    — Kristen Lopez, IndieWire, 2 Nov. 2026
  • In a panel clip circulating amid Stewart’s death, McKellen details his experience coming out as gay in 1988, as Stewart supports him silently by holding his hand onstage.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of details
Verb
  • Weigh in as your waiter customizes your hummus, or select the add-ons as your sundae gets made.
    — Lisa Shames, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • After receiving assessment results, a teacher customizes a curriculum built for a student’s needs, Tanner explained.
    — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of customizes
Verb
  • Adler’s version, as elegant and lyrical as Fisher’s, enumerates ways to use every last scrap, bone, and core—and introduced her as a writer who made art out of the marginal.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Zuckerberg enumerates one of these very specifically, and in my view, this is one of the biggest contributions of this essay.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Definition of enumerates
Verb
  • Yet Lee shows that the iron sense of control with which Brookner approached her own legacy runs through her fiction, too, creating the austere elegance that characterizes her prose.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026
  • In October 2019, China paused sponsorship deals with the National Basketball Association after Houston Rockets executive Daryl Morey posted online in support of protests in Hong Kong, which Beijing characterizes as separatist and seditious.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of characterizes
Verb
  • About 20% of the Constitution itemizes things that the federal and state governments may not do.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 1 July 2026
  • If one spouse itemizes deductions, the other must also itemize.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Definition of itemizes
Verb
  • In any case, the characters’ specific backgrounds matter less when the play reveals itself to be a metaphor for military conflict, especially the fallout and collateral damage affecting those who are not the strategists and decision makers.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Another reveals a family trait or behavior that was unwittingly passed from generation to generation.
    — Gary Barron, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of reveals
Verb
  • The deal closed in April 2026; Starbucks no longer discloses China numbers in its earnings.
    — Jay Ganglani, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The headman is compromised, an NGO in the area is pursuing its own politics, and the man running the mine discloses that Nengsal was never on the books, leaving workers like him invisible on their own land.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of discloses
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