generally speaking

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Policymakers closely monitor inflation expectations because, generally speaking, what people think will happen to prices in the future influences wage and price-setting behavior.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

But forward returns, generally speaking, have been more mixed: Three months later, the index has been positive less than 50% of the time.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

“Good lexicographers,” she writes, “are, generally speaking, not people people.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Operation Epic Fury shares DNA with a lineage of similarly buzzy code names throughout military history, but generally speaking, they typically maintained some semblance of consultant-speak restraint.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

Chemistry was, generally speaking, a science for businesspeople, for those who worked with coal and potash and dyes, and not gentlemen, who tended to be drawn to geology, natural history, and physics.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson