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
But the sweeping statement ticked off a list of concerns facing businesses, including high energy prices, labor shortages, slow efforts to digitize the bureaucracy and high taxes.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 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
She seems to include Taryn and me in this sweeping statement.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
