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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

"We responded to a $600 million problem… The idea that we're redundant and expensive isn't a good way to generalize the value of this lab or the cost of this lab."

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

“The problem with current transformer-based models is that they need a lot of data, and they don’t generalize outside….of what they have seen.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

It’s hard to generalize about the audience for a song this big.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025

If inventions are as idiosyncratic and unpredictable as the disk seems to suggest, then efforts to generalize about the history of technology may be doomed from the outset.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"We're working hard to increase representation, so we can be even more confident in how this generalizes to the population at large, especially communities typically underrepresented in research."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026

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

That's something we know that generalizes across all these different categories of secrets.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 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

Fractons, exotic quasiparticles previously predicted in quantum spin liquids using highly generalized gauge field theories, have now also appeared in simulations of a more realistic quantum solid-state model.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 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

There are ways to improve voting integrity, but Mr. Tillis is right that it’s reckless to sow generalized suspicion that American elections aren’t honest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

I didn’t have a deep desire for a child, just a generalized sense that I should consider it before it became impossible.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

“Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it’s become almost obsolete,” his mother explained carefully.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

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

Any small deviation reduced the efficiency of the method so, provided that each material has their own band-gaps, generalizing the proposed mechanism seemed something out of reach.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

It then falters by generalizing a history that, with some added details, could have better emphasized Lil Nas X’s current impact on culture.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace.

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