generalization
Example Sentences
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Autism — a developmental disability that can affect how people think, communicate, interact and process sensory information — defies simple generalizations.
From Los Angeles Times
“The CDC publicity about mental health and suicide ideation among girls has a strong case that is supported by other sources of evidence. But the generalization about violence does not have such support.”
From Washington Post
This is to say that any generalizations I make about his career are surely contradicted somewhere within it.
From Los Angeles Times
People will justify their feelings through anecdote and with global reductive generalizations as if you’re making a documentary about whatever they think a scene might be about or they think what your intent is about.
From Los Angeles Times
At the same time, "generalizations about capacity on the basis of age are no more defensible than racial or gender stereotypes. Period."
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
