generalize
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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
My own purchase is not the case to generalize from.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 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
Courts need not generalize from sports to other educational contexts.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026
Third, experimentation involves both a study of the external world and a capacity to generalize.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
“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
That's something we know that generalizes across all these different categories of secrets.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 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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“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
“They were insistent on doing a generalized experience,” said Borthwick, who is chief executive at Betaworks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
I didn’t have a deep desire for a child, just a generalized sense that I should consider it before it became impossible.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
“Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it’s become almost obsolete,” his mother explained carefully.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
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The two agencies routinely assert that they explain the methods used, but their generalizing descriptions—some of the language of which they’ve repeated for over a decade—don’t come close to routine standards for economic scholarship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 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
It was engineers such as de Caus who, by generalizing the concept of a moving mechanism, made the clockwork universe and the mechanical man possible.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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