generalize
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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
"We responded to a $600 million problem… The idea that we're redundant and expensive isn't a good way to generalize the value of this lab or the cost of this lab."
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
Mormann adds: "The ability of these neuronal groups to link spontaneously allows us to generalize information while preserving the specific details of individual events."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 2026
Courts need not generalize from sports to other educational contexts.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026
A sentence may elaborate, qualify, or generalize the one that came before.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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"MouseMapper is built on a foundation model, which means it generalizes far beyond the data it was originally trained on," says Ying Chen, co-first author of the study.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026
If Hu and his colleagues can show this behavior generalizes to other materials, he says, physicists may have to revise established models for environments such as outer space or planetary interiors, including Earth's.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 28, 2023
“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
That's something we know that generalizes across all these different categories of secrets.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 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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Any sign that war related inflation was causing generalized price hikes would be "a warning sign," that might require interest rate hikes, Macklem added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 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
I didn’t have a deep desire for a child, just a generalized sense that I should consider it before it became impossible.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
The paper estimated that the rise of remote work explained 32% of the generalized increase in mental distress nationwide between the prepandemic period of 2011 to 2019 and the postpandemic period of 2022 to 2024.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
However, in contrast to state bureaucrats, chiefdom bureaucrats had generalized rather than specialized roles.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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It requires a model capable of generalizing or learning to reason, rather than pattern matching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
He found that Mirai did, outperforming traditional models while also generalizing better to minority patients.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
In the next months, Svoboda and the scientists from the Chatterjee group will work on generalizing their results to other games and different settings.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 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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