generalize

If we back up, you can’t generalize with every single race that the nonincumbent is going to win.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

As David Hume observed, empirical science depends on induction: We generalize from what has been observed to what hasn’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

My own purchase is not the case to generalize from.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Bostwick finds it hard to generalize about them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Now we can generalize the principle to sets of related concepts, that is, to themes.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"MouseMapper is built on a foundation model, which means it generalizes far beyond the data it was originally trained on," says Ying Chen, co-first author of the study.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026

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

Injuries sufficient to support standing must be concrete and particularized, not generalized grievances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The good news is, per Gifford, that there are less generalized models out there that are tailored to much more exacting needs.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

The team also used generalized estimating equation models to examine how cardiovascular factors were related to changes in cognition.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

He said the oil price shock from the war with Iran has not broadened out to cause more generalized inflation.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

Beginning in the late ninth or early tenth century a.d., public monuments in Chichen Itza deemphasized the king, changing from official narratives of regal actions to generalized, nontextual images of religion, commerce, and war.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

If this were a one-off event, we would want to avoid generalizing.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026

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

"Our robots were faster and more agile -- capable of effectively generalizing what they learned and applying it to new situations," Berrueta said.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 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