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generalize

[jen-er-uh-lahyz] / ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz /


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"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

Courts need not generalize from sports to other educational contexts.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 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

To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace.

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




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