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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overgeneralize .
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Examples
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But I do think she overgeneralizes Stevens's reference to the "scholar, separately dwelling," who "Poured forth the fine fins, the gawky beaks, the personalia,/Which, as a man feeling everything, were his" to mean the academic scholar of the sort we find in American universities.
Literary Study 2009
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McCarthy overgeneralizes in his description of the "Democratic Leadership" as consisting of something other than "conventional politicians."
Transformers: Robots in Disguise James Taranto 2010
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McCarthy overgeneralizes in his description of the "Democratic Leadership" as consisting of something other than "conventional politicians."
Transformers: Robots in Disguise James Taranto 2010
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He always overgeneralizes and hallucinates about non-existent Fundamentalism.
No one has any right or authority to apply filter Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Along the way, Mr. Kessler offers advice that overgeneralizes from his own troubled relationship with food.
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It naturally overgeneralizes to some extent, but I found it to be an incisive and amusing read.
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I think Shannon makes a valid point about stereotypes of Black women and how they affect IRs, but I think she overgeneralizes about how this affects interracial relationships.
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Monckton as he seems wont to do overgeneralizes his statements to the point of being incorrect, often conflating two clearly different statments.
Christopher Monckton: Apocalypse Cancelled « Climate Audit 2006
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"Mexican migrants take jobs in the United States that not even blacks want," was a gaffe in the sense that it broadly states an unpleasant truth, but overgeneralizes excessively and paints all members of a group with the same negative brush.
<a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/06/mexico-exactly-how.html" title="Mexico? Exactly how Ann Althouse 2005
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It naturally overgeneralizes to some extent, but I found it to be an incisive and amusing read.
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