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generalize

[jen-er-uh-lahyz] / ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz /


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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

“These specialized architectures can be excellent in narrow slices of inference, but they don’t generalize well to the kind of workloads the frontier is converging on.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

AI models may perform well on the data they’re trained on, but “really the proof of the value of it is, does it generalize to an external population?” he noted.

From MarketWatch Nov. 11, 2025

And economics teaches us not to generalize data trends when the “rules of the game” change.

From Barron's Oct. 22, 2025

To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

"We're working hard to increase representation, so we can be even more confident in how this generalizes to the population at large, especially communities typically underrepresented in research."

From Science Daily Jun. 13, 2026

And things become really exciting when one generalizes the concept of happy numbers.

From Scientific American Oct. 24, 2023

Another clear pitfall of the Pace approach is that it generalizes calories burnt.

From Salon Nov. 14, 2022

I take issue with the framing of this article that generalizes crime by guards as the problem plaguing prisons.

From Seattle Times Dec. 3, 2021

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

There are ways to improve voting integrity, but Mr. Tillis is right that it’s reckless to sow generalized suspicion that American elections aren’t honest.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

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

A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which that question deserves.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

If this were a one-off event, we would want to avoid generalizing.

From MarketWatch Mar. 3, 2026

It requires a model capable of generalizing or learning to reason, rather than pattern matching.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 1, 2025

"Due to limited evidence from multi-decade long-term observation, synthesizing several direct observations is essential for generalizing dynamic ecological patterns," adds Hisano.

From Science Daily Apr. 24, 2024

“China believes that generalizing national security is not conducive to normal economic and trade exchanges,” Xinhua said.

From New York Times Jul. 9, 2023

Dobzhansky could now restate the essential truth of Mendel’s discovery—a gene determines a physical feature—by generalizing that idea across multiple genes and multiple features: a genotype determines a phenotype.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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