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

She responds that this sweeping statement “is impossible to prove, the narrative driven less by facts than by emotion.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021

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

By Friday, when the situation had escalated, several senior aides began drafting a more sweeping statement.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2016

Aru thought that was a rather sweeping statement to make.

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