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Recent Examples of generalist
All the species involved are generalists that eat crustaceans, fish and mollusks, but whoever was able to catch the prey got a meal.
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Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2024
Startups and new ventures often operate with tight budgets and limited resources, necessitating a focus on generalists who can handle a wide range of tasks rather than specialists with deep expertise in a single area.
—Pandwe Gibson, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
The underlying large language models powering chatbots are generalists, limiting their usefulness in specialized domains that demand higher precision.
—Harry Booth, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Some organizations, such as the WHO, have sought to create a staff of generalists by rotating their employees between their Geneva, Switzerland, headquarters and their regional and field offices.
—Tine Hanrieder, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2016
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Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2024
Startups and new ventures often operate with tight budgets and limited resources, necessitating a focus on generalists who can handle a wide range of tasks rather than specialists with deep expertise in a single area.
—Pandwe Gibson, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
The underlying large language models powering chatbots are generalists, limiting their usefulness in specialized domains that demand higher precision.
—Harry Booth, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Some organizations, such as the WHO, have sought to create a staff of generalists by rotating their employees between their Geneva, Switzerland, headquarters and their regional and field offices.
—Tine Hanrieder, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for generalist
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Can Dilute Marketing Impact In the world of marketing, a jack-of-all-trades is a master of none.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Use Case Specific Testing While an LLM is often a jack-of-all-trades, an organization often needs it to master just one or two.Margarita Simonova, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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His seductive and affable manner of describing the essence of a budding romance in layman’s terms is inviting.Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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In layman’s terms, there are fewer entry points for threat actors since Meet operates entirely in your browser (on the desktop).PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Dec. 2024
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Born in the country market town of Briggs, Lincolnshire, on Oct. 28, 1929, in the less affluent north of England, Joan Ann Plowright was the daughter of a local newspaper editor and his homemaker wife, a gifted dabbler in amateur dramatics who encouraged her daughter to act.Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Others are simply dabblers, like Justin Liam O’Brien.Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2024
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“Generalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generalist. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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