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generalize

[jen-er-uh-lahyz] / ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz /


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I don’t mean to generalize, but as people age, it’s not unusual for them to undergo behavioral changes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Over time, a dissociative response can generalize to situations or triggers that are far removed from the event that made it necessary in the first place.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

My own purchase is not the case to generalize from.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

But my reactions were limited to the attitude of the people about me, and I did not speculate or generalize.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

"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

And things become really exciting when one generalizes the concept of happy numbers.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 24, 2023

That's something we know that generalizes across all these different categories of secrets.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2022

I take issue with the framing of this article that generalizes crime by guards as the problem plaguing prisons.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

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

Consequently, much of the analysis used generalized maps of brain connectivity rather than maps created specifically for each patient.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Injuries sufficient to support standing must be concrete and particularized, not generalized grievances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The good news is, per Gifford, that there are less generalized models out there that are tailored to much more exacting needs.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

He said the oil price shock from the war with Iran has not broadened out to cause more generalized inflation.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

Beginning in the late ninth or early tenth century a.d., public monuments in Chichen Itza deemphasized the king, changing from official narratives of regal actions to generalized, nontextual images of religion, commerce, and war.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

He found that Mirai did, outperforming traditional models while also generalizing better to minority patients.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025

"Due to limited evidence from multi-decade long-term observation, synthesizing several direct observations is essential for generalizing dynamic ecological patterns," adds Hisano.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

“China believes that generalizing national security is not conducive to normal economic and trade exchanges,” Xinhua said.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2023

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


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