generalization

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This is a generalization not based on facts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

There are tens of thousands of undocumented university students in higher education throughout the country, so you can’t make this kind of generalization as a justification for engaging in arrest.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2025

But what Jones and Whewell showed was that, specifically related to agricultural land, Ricardo had crafted a huge generalization that didn't map onto the reality of the situation.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2025

Then it models how much each algorithm's performance would degrade if it were transferred to each other task, a concept known as generalization performance.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2024

And there’s the opposite, exception, which can be introduced either generalization first or exception first.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker