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Instead, he has more generically invoked the example of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who in the mid-1990s held off on raising interest rates as the economy expanded steadily because inflation pressures were mild.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Captured M23 fighters said that the Rwandans were known as the "Friendly Force", with the experts' December report saying the English term was "generically used" even when interviewees were speaking in other languages.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025

“Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” his award-winning drama produced by Rogue Machine Theatre in 2023, has the misleading ring of a generically violent video game.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

But because the garment’s most popular incarnation sported images of poodles, all such skirts came generically to be known as poodle skirts.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2024

We have been talking about chiefdoms generically, as if they were all the same.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond