Explore Generalize through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like generalise or distribute. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Generalize meaning
- To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
- To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
- To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
Synonyms of Generalize
Using Generalize
- The main meaning on this page is: To speak in generalities, or in vague terms. | To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles. | To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
- Useful related words include: generalise, distribute, spread, verbalise.
- In the example corpus, generalize often appears in combinations such as: to generalize, generalize the, generalize from.
Context around Generalize
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Generalize
- In this selection, "generalize" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, categories, beyond, attributes and shooting stand out and add context to how "generalize" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ability to generalize to unseen and achievement they generalize attributes of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "generalize" sits close to words such as adamson, adapts and adeyemi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with generalize
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Name them one by one, don’t generalize! (8 words)
So maybe just can't generalize about what people want. (10 words)
Some just generalize and write reports that can’t be substantiated. (11 words)
Some people stereotype Asian students as the “model minority” in math achievement: they generalize attributes of a so-called “minority” (racialized) community in a way that just perpetuates racism disguised as a compliment. (33 words)
At best, and I dare to generalize here, Black people were lukewarm on Hillary to the point of not turning out in any significant numbers to vote for more of the same. (32 words)
Additive functors between preadditive categories generalize the concept of ring homomorphism, and ideals in additive categories can be defined as sets of morphisms closed under addition and under composition with arbitrary morphisms. (32 words)
And why does he generalize the action of one person to the whole Islamic world? (15 words)
Name them one by one, don’t generalize! (8 words)
Example sentences (20)
Still, it’s not clear how much we can generalize from that.
These smaller models might have excellent capabilities on a particular skill, but they don't generalize as well.
Advanced aspects like hyperparameter tuning, regularization, and cross-validation are crucial for optimizing the model’s ability to generalize to unseen data.
And in the meantime, we still, deal with unfair taxation in this province, and to generalize, no provincial sales tax to generate $billions in revenue/year.
More importantly, this artificial intelligence could generalize beyond its training, improving its results.
Although it is important not to generalize from a small sample, we were struck by the repeated story that we heard from female participants aged 35 and over.
And why does he generalize the action of one person to the whole Islamic world?
As much as we want to generalize – for over 50, for being fired, for six-figure jobs – the best job search is about specifics.
But if you are going to generalize this then you will realize the reality.
Some just generalize and write reports that can’t be substantiated.
Some people stereotype Asian students as the “model minority” in math achievement: they generalize attributes of a so-called “minority” (racialized) community in a way that just perpetuates racism disguised as a compliment.
If you generalize shooting games in an extreme way, using only gun recoil and body health, there would be four main combinations of calculations.
Overall, male students said they felt there was not a typical male image at Pepperdine because there are too many groups on campus to generalize the men.
So maybe just can't generalize about what people want.
We, too, understand the temptation to generalize from preliminary results that seem really compelling.
At best, and I dare to generalize here, Black people were lukewarm on Hillary to the point of not turning out in any significant numbers to vote for more of the same.
I think as women, not to generalize, but many of us can feel intimidated to speak up—even with 25 years in your business and knowing the topics relatively well.
Name them one by one, don’t generalize!
Additive functors between preadditive categories generalize the concept of ring homomorphism, and ideals in additive categories can be defined as sets of morphisms closed under addition and under composition with arbitrary morphisms.
After three decades of amassing material, Boasians felt a growing urge to generalize.
Common combinations with generalize
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to generalize 40×
- generalize the 15×
- generalize from 6×
- generalize to 6×
- not generalize 6×
- generalize this 5×
- can generalize 2×
- generalize as 2×
- generalize for 2×
- generalize about 2×