generalize
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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
Bostwick finds it hard to generalize about them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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
AI models may perform well on the data they’re trained on, but “really the proof of the value of it is, does it generalize to an external population?” he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
A sentence may elaborate, qualify, or generalize the one that came before.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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"The same neural signature -- reward up, control down under rivalry -- likely generalizes beyond sport to political and sectarian conflicts."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
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
“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
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
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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
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
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
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
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It requires a model capable of generalizing or learning to reason, rather than pattern matching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
He found that Mirai did, outperforming traditional models while also generalizing better to minority patients.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
Any small deviation reduced the efficiency of the method so, provided that each material has their own band-gaps, generalizing the proposed mechanism seemed something out of reach.
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
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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