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- noun Plural form of
overgeneralization .
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Examples
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"Privately, he'd tell me furiously to show more restraint or to stop making crazy overgeneralizations about Westerners."
A husband in the eye of Amy Chua, the Tiger Mother Courtland Milloy 2011
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Personality is itself a fiction that we use to make overgeneralizations about ourselves and other people.
Style in Fiction 2009
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These overgeneralizations always work well for me.
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My sweeping statements and overgeneralizations are based on the same kind of proportional overreactions of Dave and his band of conspiracy theorists.
Be Careful, Gender Inequity Bogeymen Are Everywhere « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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The Telepresent Tribune: Let's speak of broad overgeneralizations...
Let's speak of broad overgeneralizations... Stephen Daugherty 2009
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Wooga, gross overgeneralizations about ethnic groups are not “facts”.
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Oh, and the rest of your overgeneralizations notwithstanding, why do you bother with these hopelessly arrogant Obama supporters?
Is Hillary Outperforming Obama Against McCain Among Working Class Voters In Key Swing States? 2009
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Second, did you really just say “gross overgeneralizations about ethnic groups are not “facts””?
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Matters of the heart may actively invite fierce overgeneralizations, and sometimes the blanket statements hold up well under scrutiny -- but nonetheless, I advise readers of this review to note that I am writing it as part of a calm catharsis of two decades of adult life which I would define as Total Romantic Failure.
Gregory Weinkauf: When Harry Met Sadness: (500) Days of Summer Reconsiders American Romantic Comedy 2009
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On a more lifestyle level, music, talking to friends, walking, and swimming all help, and so does checking my thoughts for negative overgeneralizations and reframing.
What has lifted you from depression? Steven Barnes 2009
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