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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
essentialize .
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Examples
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Thus, where Kant essentializes the subject of aesthetic judgment by extracting it from the social world, Foucault essentializes discourse,
Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu 2008
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It marginalizes the process of information gathering and communication that goes into data-driven reporting and essentializes it to a tool: the computer.
The golden age of computer-assisted reporting is at hand » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009
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"Islamic fascism" essentializes and demonizes an entire world religion.
Balkinization 2006
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"Islamic fascism" essentializes and demonizes an entire world religion.
Balkinization 2006
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Transcendence; so Whitman and Dickinson reshape and re-equip the lyric tradition as it essentializes itself in Tennyson, preparing the modernity of
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He charges that “national character” is misleading because it “essentializes a population,” that is, explains its actions in terms of fixed codes which govern everyone rather than history or political choices; applies ethnocentric standards of judgment; and homogenizes the varieties of everyday lives.
井の中の蛙 » Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home? » Print 2007
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He charges that “national character” is misleading because it “essentializes a population,” that is, explains its actions in terms of fixed codes which govern everyone rather than history or political choices; applies ethnocentric standards of judgment; and homogenizes the varieties of everyday lives.
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He charges that “national character” is misleading because it “essentializes a population,” that is, explains its actions in terms of fixed codes which govern everyone rather than history or political choices; applies ethnocentric standards of judgment; and homogenizes the varieties of everyday lives.
AHC #13 2007
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My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move.
Q&A;: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum's Oscar Diss 2007
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He charges that “national character” is misleading because it “essentializes a population,” that is, explains its actions in terms of fixed codes which govern everyone rather than history or political choices; applies ethnocentric standards of judgment; and homogenizes the varieties of everyday lives.
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