sweeping statement
Example Sentences
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Based on the available evidence, it would be difficult to justify adding a sweeping statement about avoiding all ultra-processed foods.
From Salon ● May 9, 2024
But the sweeping statement ticked off a list of concerns facing businesses, including high energy prices, labor shortages, slow efforts to digitize the bureaucracy and high taxes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Rakow and Lowry are heartened by the mounting evidence, but as scientists, they’re not ready to make such a sweeping statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
Zimmern is employing a classic journalism trope: the question presented as a sweeping statement.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2020
Aru thought that was a rather sweeping statement to make.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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