How to Use generalize in a Sentence

generalize

verb

• Lenz’s impulse to generalize is so strong that at times her work whiffs of self-help.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
• So even though no two ship tracks look the same, the models could generalize well enough to identify them around the world.
  — Wired, 26 July 2022
• But the series overall is generalized to a fault and the interviews are all over the place in terms of focus.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
• So Way and Wigner crunched a bunch of numbers and came up with a way to generalize for all fission products.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023
• In the end, not much can be generalized from Jones’s victory.
  — Eddie S. Glaude, Time, 13 Dec. 2017
• But one expert said users shouldn’t be quick to generalize.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• Our hope is to generalize this approach to a wide range of pathfinding problems.
  — Forest Agostinelli, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2021
• This was not an effort to generalize in hoping to make more space for readers.
  — Vera Castaneda, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Not to generalize too much, but men love gifts that are practical.
  — Isiah Magsino, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2022
• The sieving methods cannot be generalized so far as to push the result down to N = 2, however.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
• And many of these stereotypes have been generalized from a single ethnic group to all East Asian people.
  — Rae Chen, Teen Vogue, 28 June 2018
• That means the results may not generalize to the population at large.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
• As for the bonus question, this arrangement generalizes to other cases for which the number of bins is a power of 2.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2019
• It’s hard to generalize in part because the food hall plays two different functions.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 7 July 2017
• There are two ways to respond to this trend: specialize or generalize.
  — Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• There are two ways to respond to this trend: specialize or generalize.
  — Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2023
• Drug use is another fact of life on the street that is impossible to ignore but hard to generalize.
  — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 July 2021
• And also a lot of that is very specific details that don't generalize.
  — Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 18 June 2018
• Your mind might not generalize the matter to other offramps.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• To the researchers, these results suggest that the deep nets do generalize to brains and are not entirely unfathomable.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
• And not to generalize, but marching around and chanting sounds like something actors might be a wee bit more built for than us pasty, anti-social scribes.
  — Anonymous, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• There are other issues with the study, but these two items alone clearly demonstrate how the study's results cannot be used to generalize about blue hydrogen.
  — Nils Rokke, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
• Still, the results from the small set of opt-in respondents cannot be generalized to the experience for all women in Milwaukee.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2018
• Added on are expectations that the Gleevec story generalizes, to all cancers or even to all diseases.
  — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
• Intriguing as this was, the model only worked in two-dimensional space, and Dubovsky had no clue how to generalize it.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
• So the study didn’t provide any evidence that deeper CNNs could generalize the concepts of same and different.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 June 2021
• Not to generalize, but on the business end, for example, people are maybe less informed or simply less exposed to things.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 24 June 2022
• It’s hard to generalize, because the research is really very scant.
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 2 Oct. 2017
• Mueller cautioned that those findings are tough to generalize and based on data from authoritarian regimes, not democracies.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
• There’s no point trying to generalize Indonesian music.
  — Keegan Bradford, SPIN, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024