generalize
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Courts need not generalize from sports to other educational contexts.
From Slate • Jan. 14, 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
And economics teaches us not to generalize data trends when the “rules of the game” change.
From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025
It is hazardous to generalize about public sentiment in Gaza.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025
If inventions are as idiosyncratic and unpredictable as the disk seems to suggest, then efforts to generalize about the history of technology may be doomed from the outset.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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"Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began" by Art Spiegelman
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