- present participle of generalize.
generalizing
Example Sentences
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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
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
