single someone/something out

Examples of singled

singled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

With recidivism often seen as one of the signs of the ' incorrigible ', petty property offenders were thus particularly vulnerable to be singled out.
However, teachers' diaries and interviews indicated that disruptive children, singled out as problematic by school staff, often did well with the method.
It has been singled out primarily because agricultural prices rose much faster than the prices of manufactures during this period.
Each discriminant thus allows entire subsets of incorrect parses to be removed from consideration at each step, and the correct parse is eventually singled out.
A number of possible policy effects of vulnerability can be singled out.
Journalists are singled out as being among the worst offenders in cliche use, being much given to such expressions as strife-torn countries, and categorical denials.
Nevertheless, all have been singled out by one commentator or another.
Two of the medieval contributions to the collection should be singled out for their particular quality.
However, fighting is singled out for display because of recent special interest in whether girls engage in physical fighting.
The small district of the city singled out for height limitations was deemed unique by the court.
Those rules named in the directive are those singled out for deregulatory competition.
Two spatial units have been singled out to clarify these differences - the private\\domestic space and the public space.
The question is why, of the many things it could come to be conceived as, this one comes to mind and is singled out.
The canonical trajectory shape was neither preferred nor singled out as special.
In particular, transfer has been singled out as a prime example of an area in which the interests of the two groups could converge.
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