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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of essentialize.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • "Islamic fascism" essentializes and demonizes an entire world religion.

    Balkinization 2006

  • "Islamic fascism" essentializes and demonizes an entire world religion.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Transcendence; so Whitman and Dickinson reshape and re-equip the lyric tradition as it essentializes itself in Tennyson, preparing the modernity of

    Introduction: A History of Transatlantic Romanticism 2006

  • 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

  • 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.

    Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home? 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home? 2007

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