How to Use generalization in a Sentence

generalization

noun

• She was prone to generalization.
• He made several sweeping generalizations about women.
• This feels like a bit of a generalization, but sure!
  — Lily Osler, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
• The other key generalization is that these costs can be brought down.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2020
• At the risk of gross over generalization, doctors tend to avoid change.
  — Robert H. Shmerling, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• These broad, smug generalizations are not only on the left, of course.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Aug. 2017
• This is an over-generalization, of course, but there’s truth behind it.
  — Jeff Abbott, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• That may be massive generalization, but still, shopping for the men in your life is no easy feat.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 13 June 2017
• To say the Cowboys have fallen short on all third downs would be a generalization.
  — Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
• But over six months, as the sample size grows and starts to reduce the noise, some generalizations start to surface.
  — SI.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• That's a generalization, for sure, because our red regions are painted a deep, deep red.
  — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• But that generalization hides a major, growing gender gap among the young folks.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 21 June 2018
• There are also exceptions to generalizations that can and should be made about the traits of a race and culture.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 27 Apr. 2018
• People who present opinions as fact or make broad generalizations may need to be reminded of the truth.
  — oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2020
• But there are exceptions, as there always are, to that kind of generalization.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
• Now, of course, there are many exceptions to these generalizations.
  — Robert Samuelson, Twin Cities, 25 Aug. 2019
• Beyond the fact of their ubiquity, there are no generalizations to be made about these spaces.
  — M.h. Miller Miranda Barnes, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• This is a generalization, of course, and many only children are very social with other kids.
  — Cynthia Hanson, Parents, 17 Feb. 2026
• Start with an abstract generalization of the integers called a ring.
  — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
• Big cities get a bad rap for being overly noisy and devoid of quiet spaces, but that may be a generalization.
  — Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 2 Oct. 2015
• The idea that handsome people can’t be funny is far too sweeping a generalization.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• As a broad generalization, walleyes will hang out in shallower water (think sandy flats and near rocky shorelines) in spring.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 13 June 2024
• That’s where generalization comes in.
  — Dr. Eric George, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• Here, as elsewhere, the striking phrase tips over beyond sweeping generalization to land askew.
  — Richard Lea, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• The generalization takes away from the bite of the observation.
  — refinery29.com, 25 May 2018
• This turns out to be a generalization of the Elo rating system, which is used to rank players in chess and other games.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2023
• Cory Booker often speaks about God in generalizations that can feel bland.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2019
• Then there were the generalizations being thrown around, a blame-the-media game that was transparent and tiresome.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019
• That may be a generalization, but history bears out the gist of what Smith suggested.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The first is still AI generalization.
  — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026