general meaning
Example Sentences
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Stars have another advantage: They work more systematically in general, meaning they are more organized and thoughtful in how they approach tasks compared with the average worker.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025
Money from the primary can’t carry over from the general, meaning Bass essentially had to start from scratch on June 8, the day after the primary.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2022
The general meaning and purpose of an investigation is to learn more than is already known, and then, it is implied, to act on the results.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2019
Although most of us think of a cylinder as having a circular base, such as a soup can or a metal rod, in mathematics the word cylinder has a more general meaning.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
Nico didn’t speak the language, but he remembered his childhood Italian well enough to glean the general meaning: We, the bones that are here, await yours.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
