generic
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Shares in the Swiss maker of generic medicines fell as much as 8% in European morning trading Wednesday before bouncing back, shaving off some of the stock’s gains in the year to date.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
“No one’s gonna be stoked to find out it’s just a generic white guy from Florida,” Rispoli, 41, said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
At the land border with Benin, health forms were generic, asking about fevers but not mentioning Ebola and without temperature checks, an AFP reporter observed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Kyle Chayka, a journalist at The New Yorker focused on technology, says AI writing is now widely considered to be "generic, obsequious and banal".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
In elaboration, a single event is first described in a generic way and then in specific detail.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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