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  • verb Present participle of singularize.

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Examples

  • The "singularizing" of a seemingly plural foreign word could also be an intentional mistake.

    languagehat.com: LENGKUA/GALANGAL. 2005

  • I think we should stop the singularizing, but also be much firmer on what we expect them to do in the future.

    CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2009 2009

  • I think we should stop the singularizing but also be much fervor (ph) on what we expect them to do in the future.

    CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2009 2009

  • We as a society have to come up with the same baseline using (inaudible) in all spheres of public life instead of somehow singularizing this one thing, which is interrogation of combatants and we need to look at it in a broader way.

    CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2007 2007

  • We as a society have to come up with the same baseline using (inaudible) in all spheres of public life instead of somehow singularizing this one thing, which is interrogation of combatants and we need to look at it in a broader way.

    CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2007 2007

  • Lastly, there is in the heart of all men a working principle, -- call it ambition, or vanity, or desire of distinction, the inseparable adjunct of our individuality and personal nature, and flowing from the same source as language -- the instinct and necessity in each man of declaring his particular existence, and thus of singling or singularizing himself.

    Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • For it is easy enough to compile compelling material to include in the catalogue, but how to present the content appropriately (and considering our resources, how to present it practically) is another issue, whether it's around the oeuvre of a deceased artist, or in Katharina Fritsch's case, singularizing a multiple, or with Tino Sehgal's work, figuring out how to be extensive-or not-over an artist so evasive.

    Walker Blogs Combined Feed Brooke Kellaway 2010

  • For it is easy enough to compile compelling material to include in the catalogue, but how to present the content appropriately (and considering our resources, how to present it practically) is another issue, whether it's around the oeuvre of a deceased artist, or in Katharina Fritsch's case, singularizing a multiple, or with Tino Sehgal's work, figuring out how to be extensive-or not-over an artist so evasive.

    Museum Blogs 2010

  • For it is easy enough to compile compelling material to include in the catalogue, but how to present the content appropriately (and considering our resources, how to present it practically) is another issue, whether it's around the oeuvre of a deceased artist, or in Katharina Fritsch's case, singularizing a multiple, or with Tino Sehgal's work, figuring out how to be extensive-or not-over an artist so evasive.

    Walker Blogs Combined Feed Brooke Kellaway 2010

  • We as a society have to come up with the same baseline using (inaudible) in all spheres of public life instead of somehow singularizing this one thing, which is interrogation of combatants and we need to look at it in a broader way. others have offered this argument several times.

    Hullabaloo 2009

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