generalize

I don’t mean to generalize, but as people age, it’s not unusual for them to undergo behavioral changes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

As the AI analyst and podcaster Tom Reed quips: “Even a 100% success rate at predicting the tokens of a Robert Caro biography doesn’t generalize to becoming POTUS.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

While it never pays to generalize, those who appear not to be the most computer literate often rely on keeping old- fashioned notes so that they don’t forget stuff like user names and passwords.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

"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

Consequently, much of the analysis used generalized maps of brain connectivity rather than maps created specifically for each patient.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

“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

She detects a generalized funk poisoning our existence and asks, not unreasonably, “What is with this bummer veil cast over everything fun or exciting?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

I didn’t have a deep desire for a child, just a generalized sense that I should consider it before it became impossible.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

“Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it’s become almost obsolete,” his mother explained carefully.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

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

He found that Mirai did, outperforming traditional models while also generalizing better to minority patients.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025

"Our robots were faster and more agile -- capable of effectively generalizing what they learned and applying it to new situations," Berrueta said.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 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