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
So anytime you make a sweeping statement about this meaning something, or that being a sure thing, you run the risk of it blowing up in your face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
He’s not trying to make a sweeping statement about you as a person.
From Slate ● May 4, 2020
She seems to include Taryn and me in this sweeping statement.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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