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

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

Most of the debate on Tuesday was about the level of generality at which a modern law is supported by “history and tradition.”

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2023

And here a generality concerning the growth of American cities, seemingly true of all of them I know.

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