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Recent Examples of generalist
May Cause Increased Upskilling Cost The rise of marketing generalists comes at a cost.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The splashiest headlines often focus on AI models created by the likes of Google and OpenAI, which cost billions of dollars to train and can perform as generalists answering all kinds of questions.
—Billy Perrigo, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Highly Trained Specialists: Offshore staff recruited and managed by Office Beacon are not generalists.
—William Mullane, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Advertising Needs To Be Grounded In Data And Research
A strong creative is also a cultural generalist—someone who understands people and has a pulse on society, from geopolitical to pop-cultural and behavioral trends.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The splashiest headlines often focus on AI models created by the likes of Google and OpenAI, which cost billions of dollars to train and can perform as generalists answering all kinds of questions.
—Billy Perrigo, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Highly Trained Specialists: Offshore staff recruited and managed by Office Beacon are not generalists.
—William Mullane, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Advertising Needs To Be Grounded In Data And Research
A strong creative is also a cultural generalist—someone who understands people and has a pulse on society, from geopolitical to pop-cultural and behavioral trends.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for generalist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for generalist
Noun
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Essentially, project managers are the jack-of-all-trades.—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Defensive tackle Derrick Harmon, Oregon: A Detroit native who’s a jack-of-all-trades DT, Harmon would be a lot of fun back in his hometown.—
Colton Pouncy,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In layman’s terms, this is a Champions League for clubs from North America, Central America and the Caribbean.—
Tim Spiers,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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The remaining monks and a layman were rescued and were taken to the hospital.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
12 Feb. 2025
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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 15 Apr. 2025.
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