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He recently asked a model to help generalize one of his arguments, only for the model to spot an error in that argument.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

It’s tempting to generalize from this study’s findings to conclude that any retirement investment that reduces financial anxiety and stress should have the same effect on longevity as a lifetime annuity.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Mormann adds: "The ability of these neuronal groups to link spontaneously allows us to generalize information while preserving the specific details of individual events."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025

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

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"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

If Hu and his colleagues can show this behavior generalizes to other materials, he says, physicists may have to revise established models for environments such as outer space or planetary interiors, including Earth's.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 28, 2023

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

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2022

“Outlier II” involves an A.I.-generated melody that generalizes over time, gradually losing nuance before being disrupted by a series of chance-based improvisations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

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

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

Higher prices have a more generalized effect on economic growth, which can’t be attributed to specific products.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

Anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorders, and phobias.

From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026

She could imagine how she might abandon her ambitions of writing and dedicate her life in return for these moments of elated, generalized love.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026

It requires a model capable of generalizing or learning to reason, rather than pattern matching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

"Due to limited evidence from multi-decade long-term observation, synthesizing several direct observations is essential for generalizing dynamic ecological patterns," adds Hisano.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 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

Dobzhansky could now restate the essential truth of Mendel’s discovery—a gene determines a physical feature—by generalizing that idea across multiple genes and multiple features: a genotype determines a phenotype.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee