I’m acutely aware that people coming to our southern border are not one faceless brown mass but singular individuals, with stories and backgrounds and reasons for coming that are unique… So I hoped to present one of those unique individual stories… And in so doing, I hope to create a pause where the reader may begin to individuate [and remember that] these people are people. (Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt, Flatiron Books, p. 382)
This word, when used in the above sense, can also be a synonym for differentiate, separate, or discriminate.
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