generalize
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My own purchase is not the case to generalize from.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Supporters of AI systems tout their greater capacity to generalize from one driving situation to another, as human drivers can, making them easier to roll out at scale than hybrid systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
And economics teaches us not to generalize data trends when the “rules of the game” change.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025
It’s hard to generalize about the audience for a song this big.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
A sentence may elaborate, qualify, or generalize the one that came before.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Their ability to predict which enhancer variants will alter genomic instructions is not limited to limbs and generalizes to thousands of enhancers across cell types and species.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024
And things become really exciting when one generalizes the concept of happy numbers.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 24, 2023
Another clear pitfall of the Pace approach is that it generalizes calories burnt.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2022
“Outlier II” involves an A.I.-generated melody that generalizes over time, gradually losing nuance before being disrupted by a series of chance-based improvisations.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
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
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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
There are ways to improve voting integrity, but Mr. Tillis is right that it’s reckless to sow generalized suspicion that American elections aren’t honest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
"We can apply these generalized laws to better understand evaporating black holes in quantum theory and black hole mergers, like those detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration using gravitational waves."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
“AI will achieve Stockfish-level coding and generalized computer use,” Musk said in a statement on social media, possibly referring to the free, open-source chess engine.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
And apart from a few reportings of football games, the mental fare has been as generalized, as packaged, and as undistinguished as the food.”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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If this were a one-off event, we would want to avoid generalizing.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
It requires a model capable of generalizing or learning to reason, rather than pattern matching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 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
To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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