generalizing

Example Sentences

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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

Any small deviation reduced the efficiency of the method so, provided that each material has their own band-gaps, generalizing the proposed mechanism seemed something out of reach.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

It then falters by generalizing a history that, with some added details, could have better emphasized Lil Nas X’s current impact on culture.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 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