generalize
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"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
"Keeping it in flatter parts of the landscape, where lots of solutions perform similarly well, turns out to be what allows these models to generalize."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2026
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
It is hazardous to generalize about public sentiment in Gaza.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
While it never pays to generalize, those who appear not to be the most computer literate often rely on keeping old- fashioned notes so that they don’t forget stuff like user names and passwords.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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"The same neural signature -- reward up, control down under rivalry -- likely generalizes beyond sport to political and sectarian conflicts."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
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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The good news is, per Gifford, that there are less generalized models out there that are tailored to much more exacting needs.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
The team also used generalized estimating equation models to examine how cardiovascular factors were related to changes in cognition.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
He said the oil price shock from the war with Iran has not broadened out to cause more generalized inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Higher prices have a more generalized effect on economic growth, which can’t be attributed to specific products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The younger boys, who had never been up this late, responded to the generalized slackening of discipline by either tearing up and down the stairs or falling fast asleep on the parlor rug.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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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
"Our robots were faster and more agile -- capable of effectively generalizing what they learned and applying it to new situations," Berrueta said.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 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
Reasoning by induction—the process of generalizing from the available evidence—is the only real way of making progress in the world of things.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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