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generalize

[jen-er-uh-lahyz] / ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz /


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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

If we back up, you can’t generalize with every single race that the nonincumbent is going to win.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

My own purchase is not the case to generalize from.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 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

To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace.

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

Their ability to predict which enhancer variants will alter genomic instructions is not limited to limbs and generalizes to thousands of enhancers across cell types and species.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024

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

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

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

But Ms. Cusk has really used Ms. Portman as a body double, borrowing from the outline of her career to produce a generalized study of megacelebrity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The team also used generalized estimating equation models to examine how cardiovascular factors were related to changes in cognition.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 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

In 1605 this new idea of discovery was generalized by Francis Bacon in Of the Proficiency and Advancement of Learning.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

“China believes that generalizing national security is not conducive to normal economic and trade exchanges,” Xinhua said.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2023

Dobzhansky could now restate the essential truth of Mendel’s discovery—a gene determines a physical feature—by generalizing that idea across multiple genes and multiple features: a genotype determines a phenotype.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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