Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb same as
generalize .
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- verb chiefly British Alternative spelling of
generalize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb speak or write in generalities
- verb become systemic and spread throughout the body
- verb cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
- verb draw from specific cases for more general cases
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Examples
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I don't disagree with him, but one cannot generalise from a couple of superficial examples.
Why we like reading novels Maxine 2008
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I don't disagree with him, but one cannot generalise from a couple of superficial examples.
July 2008 Maxine 2008
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I don't disagree with him, but one cannot generalise from a couple of superficial examples.
Why we like reading novels Maxine 2008
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'Great inventors in all ages knew this -- Michael Angelo and Albert Durer are known by this and by this alone'; and another time he wrote, with all the simple directness of nineteenth-century prose, 'to generalise is to be an idiot.'
Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877
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While it is never correct to "generalise", SOME younger women haven't had a lot of life experience and just aren't that attracted to the "nice guys".
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I agree many of these officers are shunted off to work in some obscure post instead of being asked to leave, but i think it is an extreme arrogance on behalf of TA posters to 'generalise' that regs can't mange TA soldiers.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I agree many of these officers are shunted off to work in some obscure post instead of being asked to leave, but i think it is an extreme arrogance on behalf of TA posters to 'generalise' that regs can't mange TA soldiers.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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"It is hard to generalise because there is a spectrum, but actually the women I have worked with over the years certainly don't seek confrontation and would tend to try to avoid it, which would be consistent with this pre-empting of criticism and anxiety, I suppose; hedging, using humour to soften things."
Women told to speak their minds to get on in boardrooms 2011
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Assistant Village Idiot: cityduck — generalise much?
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Contribution to the NYT ‘Room for Debate’ Blog on the AQ7 Argument 2010
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Assistant Village Idiot says: cityduck — generalise much?
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Contribution to the NYT ‘Room for Debate’ Blog on the AQ7 Argument 2010
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