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generalize

[jen-er-uh-lahyz] / ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz /


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"Keeping it in flatter parts of the landscape, where lots of solutions perform similarly well, turns out to be what allows these models to generalize."

From Science Daily Jan. 15, 2026

AI models may perform well on the data they’re trained on, but “really the proof of the value of it is, does it generalize to an external population?” he noted.

From MarketWatch Nov. 11, 2025

And economics teaches us not to generalize data trends when the “rules of the game” change.

From Barron's Oct. 22, 2025

It is hazardous to generalize about public sentiment in Gaza.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 6, 2025

To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

"The same neural signature -- reward up, control down under rivalry -- likely generalizes beyond sport to political and sectarian conflicts."

From Science Daily Nov. 11, 2025

And things become really exciting when one generalizes the concept of happy numbers.

From Scientific American Oct. 24, 2023

Another clear pitfall of the Pace approach is that it generalizes calories burnt.

From Salon Nov. 14, 2022

I take issue with the framing of this article that generalizes crime by guards as the problem plaguing prisons.

From Seattle Times Dec. 3, 2021

As a moral declaration the old truism seems perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can’t believe it with my stomach.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

She detects a generalized funk poisoning our existence and asks, not unreasonably, “What is with this bummer veil cast over everything fun or exciting?”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Any sign that war related inflation was causing generalized price hikes would be "a warning sign," that might require interest rate hikes, Macklem added.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

The paper estimated that the rise of remote work explained 32% of the generalized increase in mental distress nationwide between the prepandemic period of 2011 to 2019 and the postpandemic period of 2022 to 2024.

From MarketWatch Jun. 27, 2026

In generalized anxiety disorder, for example, people may worry excessively about ordinary events and struggle to control nervousness or fear.

From Science Daily May 16, 2026

A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The two agencies routinely assert that they explain the methods used, but their generalizing descriptions—some of the language of which they’ve repeated for over a decade—don’t come close to routine standards for economic scholarship.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 2025

He found that Mirai did, outperforming traditional models while also generalizing better to minority patients.

From MarketWatch Nov. 11, 2025

In the next months, Svoboda and the scientists from the Chatterjee group will work on generalizing their results to other games and different settings.

From Science Daily Dec. 6, 2024

I might be generalizing and telling the story a little simply right now, but that's why there's so much cheese.

From Salon Mar. 20, 2024

Reasoning by induction—the process of generalizing from the available evidence—is the only real way of making progress in the world of things.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith




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