generalize

I don’t mean to generalize, but as people age, it’s not unusual for them to undergo behavioral changes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Over time, a dissociative response can generalize to situations or triggers that are far removed from the event that made it necessary in the first place.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 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

Supporters of AI systems tout their greater capacity to generalize from one driving situation to another, as human drivers can, making them easier to roll out at scale than hybrid systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace.

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

"People miss information when they follow an algorithm, but they think what they do know generalizes to other features and other parts of the environment that they've never experienced," Turner said.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2025

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

From Scientific American ● Oct. 24, 2023

“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

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

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 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

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

"We can apply these generalized laws to better understand evaporating black holes in quantum theory and black hole mergers, like those detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration using gravitational waves."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

And apart from a few reportings of football games, the mental fare has been as generalized, as packaged, and as undistinguished as the food.”

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

"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

To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace.

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