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  • That avoids what Hall called "generica," or when people think, "If I have one at home, why am I coming to one here?"

    Daily News-Record 2008

  • Me, too, generica - I had a mouthful of water in my mouth and it sprayed out all over my keyboard.

    Obama: Don't Be Confused, I'm Serious About Ending War 2009

  • An overall feeling of generica infects the film which, however it tries I guess to send up the slasher subgenre, doesn't do anything different with the template; the Final Girl is the final girl, the Whore Who Dies is the Whore Who Dies and the Comic Relief Slouch is the first to go.

    Lorna doomed Arbogast 2008

  • The third act, as Final Girl Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) tries to evade a merciless killing machine (who turns out to be her big brother) is the film's dullest, piling tedium upon generica.

    The Shape Abides Arbogast 2008

  • Kylie-generica each new song she releases somehow sounds more and more like the last one.

    Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is 2008

  • To clarify: my worry is that South Elm's distinctive, local flavor will be lost to architectural and commercial generica.

    Mellowing On Mellow Mushroom David Wharton 2007

  • To clarify: my worry is that South Elm's distinctive, local flavor will be lost to architectural and commercial generica.

    Archive 2007-10-01 David Wharton 2007

  • If you want to understand this phenomenon, consider that most of these middle-American apocalypse-craving loons live in what I call "generica."

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • If you want to understand this phenomenon, consider that most of these middle-American apocalypse-craving loons live in what I call "generica."

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • Here was a hard-working, distinctive, forceful presence, as far from Hollywood generica as an actor can be.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2011

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  • Those features of the American landscape (strip malls, motel/restaurant chains, prefab housing) that are exactly the same no matter what part of the country you're in - per dangerouslogic.com

    April 14, 2007