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generalize

verb as in make a sweeping assumption, statement

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However, since the Kaiser team focused on members of a single health plan, their findings may not generalize to young people elsewhere, he added.

With a caveat that it couldn’t generalize to the entire population, the Rand study found a greater connection in the three communities between substance use and homelessness than other studies.

Following Monday’s VP announcement, a Times opinion column condemned the memoir, noting that Vance’s writing generalized 35% of the country “as tragic victims of alcoholism, drug abuse, laziness and their own self-destructive moral failings,” which in turn caused the news media to further isolate and generalize the white working class.

Conversely, Miller notes that some technically ultraprocessed foods, like liquid egg whites, raisins and unsweetened raisins are actually quite "good for you," so it's challenging to generalize too much.

From Salon

The MIT researchers developed a technique that can take a series of smaller datasets, like those gathered from many robotic warehouses, learn separate policies from each one, and combine the policies in a way that enables a robot to generalize to many tasks.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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