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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of nominalize.

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Examples

  • General Motors But, Mr. Neil writes, The world is full of nominalized, fully rational cars with perfectly fitted convertible tops.

    Ragtop Road Monster 2011

  • The world is full of nominalized, fully rational cars with perfectly fitted convertible tops.

    A Genuine Ragtop Road Monster, Leaks and All Dan Neil 2011

  • Finally, it's worth noting that proponents of easy-road nominalism do not prefer their view to Field's simply because it's “easier”, or because it doesn't involve a commitment to the controversial claim that our empirical theories can be nominalized.

    Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Balaguer, Mark 2008

  • Field tries to establish this thesis by arguing that our empirical theories can be nominalized, i.e., reformulated in a way that avoids reference to, and existential quantification over, abstract objects.

    Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Balaguer, Mark 2008

  • The nominalized infinitive is also used for 'happening(s), event(s)'.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • The nominalized infinitive is also used for 'happening(s), event(s)'.

    Archive 2007-06-01 enowning 2007

  • Matters are complicated by the fact that any predicate can be nominalized into the subject term of the sentence: “X is M” is equivalent to

    Moral Anti-Realism Joyce, Richard 2007

  • Here is Quine and Goodman's (1947 p. 180) nominalized version of “There are more cats than dogs”: “Every individual that contains a bit of each cat is bigger than some individual that contains a bit of each dog” where a bit “is an object that is just as big as the smallest animal among all cats and dogs”.

    Types and Tokens Wetzel, Linda 2006

  • ” It may be definitely nominalized or verbalized by the affixing of elements that are exclusively nominal or verbal in force.

    Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure 1921

  • It may still be nominalized; inikwihl’minih’isit-’i means “the former small fires in the house, the little fires that were once burning in the house.

    Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure 1921

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