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generalize

[jen-er-uh-lahyz] / ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz /


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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

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

“These specialized architectures can be excellent in narrow slices of inference, but they don’t generalize well to the kind of workloads the frontier is converging on.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

Third, experimentation involves both a study of the external world and a capacity to generalize.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

"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

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

“I think people could use help that is generalized, that sort of goes outside something that’s so specific and prescriptive.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

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

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

However, in contrast to state bureaucrats, chiefdom bureaucrats had generalized rather than specialized roles.

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

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

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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