sweeping statement

Example Sentences

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Based on the available evidence, it would be difficult to justify adding a sweeping statement about avoiding all ultra-processed foods.

From Salon • May 9, 2024

So anytime you make a sweeping statement about this meaning something, or that being a sure thing, you run the risk of it blowing up in your face.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2021

Zimmern is employing a classic journalism trope: the question presented as a sweeping statement.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2020

It’s certainly one of the top five waltzes of all time, and I include all of the Strauss family in that sweeping statement.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2018

Aru thought that was a rather sweeping statement to make.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi