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generalize

[jen-er-uh-lahyz] / ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz /


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Over time, a dissociative response can generalize to situations or triggers that are far removed from the event that made it necessary in the first place.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

My own purchase is not the case to generalize from.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Bostwick finds it hard to generalize about them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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

A sentence may elaborate, qualify, or generalize the one that came before.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"People miss information when they follow an algorithm, but they think what they do know generalizes to other features and other parts of the environment that they've never experienced," Turner said.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 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

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

“I think people could use help that is generalized, that sort of goes outside something that’s so specific and prescriptive.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

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

The two agencies routinely assert that they explain the methods used, but their generalizing descriptions—some of the language of which they’ve repeated for over a decade—don’t come close to routine standards for economic scholarship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

In the next months, Svoboda and the scientists from the Chatterjee group will work on generalizing their results to other games and different settings.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2024

I might be generalizing and telling the story a little simply right now, but that's why there's so much cheese.

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2024

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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