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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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Why Multitasking Is Overrated Multitasking may look cool, but it has been shown to scatter an individual’s focus and productivity, in much the same way as professionals who strive to be a jack-of-all-trades and become master of none.Allen Kopelman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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This bomber jacket is the ultimate jack-of-all-trades, effortlessly going with everything in your closet while keeping you looking fab.Daisy Maldonado, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2024
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While a layman might initially believe finding the whereabouts of a high-ranking business figure would be difficult, a few quick Google searches could easily yield such information, according to D’Amico.Steve Kopack, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
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In layman’s terms: more than a million bathtubs too many.Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Others are simply dabblers, like Justin Liam O’Brien.Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2024
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In David Epstein’s ‘Range’, dabblers and dillettantes are ascendant.Big Think, Big Think, 24 June 2024
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“Generalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generalist. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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