generality

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But what level of generality is appropriate for this analysis?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

This is obviously a gross generality, but it really feels true to me that people here tend to take a more optimistic tone.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

Accordingly, it increasingly enacted statutes that created rules of a fairly high level of generality and delegated responsibility for making more particular legal rules—called “regulations” —to executive branch agencies with expertise in the field.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025

Yet, due to its generality, it can be applied to any social dilemma with diverse individuals, like climate change, for instance.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024

Among the generality of men I am tall—six feet even—although among the males of my family I am considered a dwarf.

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