How to Use generalize in a Sentence

generalize

verb

• Lenz’s impulse to generalize is so strong that at times her work whiffs of self-help.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
• The new books take this feeling and generalize it.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
• There is no need to generalize for resale.
  — Sean Maday, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
• Not to generalize too much, but men love gifts that are practical.
  — Isiah Magsino, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2022
• This was not an effort to generalize in hoping to make more space for readers.
  — Vera Castaneda, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The idea of filling in the blanks can be generalized to other bio-signals as well.
  — Eloy Geenjaar, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2025
• To solve that problem, spacetime would need to be generalized.
  — Big Think, 12 Mar. 2026
• Our hope is to generalize this approach to a wide range of pathfinding problems.
  — Forest Agostinelli, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2021
• The robot’s feat doesn’t generalize that way.
  — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
• In some cases, that patient may generalize that to the whole health care system.
  — Charlotte Huff, NPR, 28 Oct. 2025
• So even though no two ship tracks look the same, the models could generalize well enough to identify them around the world.
  — Wired, 26 July 2022
• In the end, not much can be generalized from Jones’s victory.
  — Eddie S. Glaude, Time, 13 Dec. 2017
• When a system fails to generalize in the physical world, the fix is rarely a retrain.
  — Alexandre De Vigan, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
• This maybe is me being generalized.
  — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026
• And also a lot of that is very specific details that don't generalize.
  — Mariette Dichristina, Scientific American, 18 June 2018
• But the series overall is generalized to a fault and the interviews are all over the place in terms of focus.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
• The country is also massive—three times the size of Texas—and can’t or shouldn’t be generalized.
  — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2025
• That means the results may not generalize to the population at large.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
• Drug use is another fact of life on the street that is impossible to ignore but hard to generalize.
  — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 July 2021
• The work is readily generalized to other states, too.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• One user offered a reminder not to generalize.
  — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
• So Way and Wigner crunched a bunch of numbers and came up with a way to generalize for all fission products.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023
• And many of these stereotypes have been generalized from a single ethnic group to all East Asian people.
  — Rae Chen, Teen Vogue, 28 June 2018
• And because the participants were young adults, the results can’t be generalized to other age groups.
  — New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2025
• Terms of service change often, logging is limited and controls can be coarse and generalized.
  — Mark Doble, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• The sieving methods cannot be generalized so far as to push the result down to N = 2, however.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
• Not to generalize, but on the business end, for example, people are maybe less informed or simply less exposed to things.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 24 June 2022
• To the researchers, these results suggest that the deep nets do generalize to brains and are not entirely unfathomable.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
• Reed admits that the study is a small snapshot to generalize for all populations and animals.
  — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019
• As for the bonus question, this arrangement generalizes to other cases for which the number of bins is a power of 2.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2019