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generalize

[jen-er-uh-lahyz] / ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz /


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He recently asked a model to help generalize one of his arguments, only for the model to spot an error in that argument.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

"We responded to a $600 million problem… The idea that we're redundant and expensive isn't a good way to generalize the value of this lab or the cost of this lab."

From Barron's May 19, 2026

"Keeping it in flatter parts of the landscape, where lots of solutions perform similarly well, turns out to be what allows these models to generalize."

From Science Daily Jan. 15, 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

Not to generalize, but being OCD about manners isn't exactly considered a quintessential American trait.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

"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

“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

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

Any sign that war related inflation was causing generalized price hikes would be "a warning sign," that might require interest rate hikes, Macklem added.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

“AI will achieve Stockfish-level coding and generalized computer use,” Musk said in a statement on social media, possibly referring to the free, open-source chess engine.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

In generalized anxiety disorder, for example, people may worry excessively about ordinary events and struggle to control nervousness or fear.

From Science Daily May 16, 2026

The younger boys, who had never been up this late, responded to the generalized slackening of discipline by either tearing up and down the stairs or falling fast asleep on the parlor rug.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

If this were a one-off event, we would want to avoid generalizing.

From MarketWatch Mar. 3, 2026

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

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

It then falters by generalizing a history that, with some added details, could have better emphasized Lil Nas X’s current impact on culture.

From New York Times Jan. 25, 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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