How to Use individuation in a Sentence
individuation
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This process of individuation is all the more impressive for its refusal to present its team as a classic band of archetypes.
— Ben Brantley, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2016 -
There is another problem with any version of individuation that is entirely based on some ID code: It can be spoofed.
— WIRED, 6 July 2023 -
If the old anxiety was about process, the new anxieties are about individuation—which offers a clue to some of the thinking behind hesitancy to take vaccines.
— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2021 -
The book detailed the group’s work, which came to be known as separation-individuation theory.
— New York Times, 17 Oct. 2021 -
Of course, their adventures were as much about teamwork as individuation.
— Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 15 Feb. 2022 -
Brodie works with big themes — individuation, mental illness, legacy, self-destruction and redemption — but her touch is lighter than an onshore breeze.
— Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021 -
But given Serge’s subject matter and circumstances, this push and pull between individuation and abstraction has a specific charge.
— Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022 -
His research focused on individuation the negative forms of social influence (such as conformity, obedience and the bystander effect) and the use of time perspective as therapy after trauma.
— Katie Worth, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2014 -
Zimbardo continued to study the effects of individuation and social influence as well as therapeutic techniques for survivors of trauma.
— Katie Worth, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2014 -
The second episode of The Kardashians further establishes the show’s style—crisp camerawork, tight narratives, and a confident and unhurried pace—while also highlighting the family’s apparent individuation from one another.
— Vogue, 22 Apr. 2022 -
This age coincides with the important developmental stage in which children begin a process of separation and individuation and assert themselves as distinct individuals.
— Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 30 May 2022 -
That process of individuation and separation is universal.
— Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022 -
This engagement with primordial matter perfectly aligns with themes of female identity, gender individuation and personal agency.
— Dallas News, 5 July 2022 -
The framework may be highly theoretical, but Golman believes there’s an important takeaway: Neither conformity nor individuation produce meaningful results in a vacuum.
— Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2022 -
Their tailored silhouettes indicate their membership in the political class, making individuation difficult.
— Jo-Ellen Pozner, The Conversation, 24 Sep. 2020 -
In SilentWalk, a free, meditative musical experience, apparent paradoxes abound: individuation leads to community, technology to mindfulness, stimulus to peace.
— Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
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