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generalize

[jen-er-uh-lahyz] / ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz /


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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

And economics teaches us not to generalize data trends when the “rules of the game” change.

From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025

But my reactions were limited to the attitude of the people about me, and I did not speculate or generalize.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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