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sweeping statement



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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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