How to Use generalized in a Sentence

generalized

adjective

• The patient has been experiencing generalized pain.
• The sounds get slicker; the lyrics grow more generalized.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• Doomer Girl is, a month into her young life, a generalized prompt.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2020
• The last time the game industry saw a generalized price increase for big-budget, high-end games was the mid-'00s.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 2 July 2020
• His show, and others, have been blurring the unrest seen in the wake of George Floyd's death with other, generalized types of crime.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 10 June 2020
• There are two types of seizures, called generalized and focal.
  — Jordan Strickler, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• Victims first complained of sore throats, headaches, and generalized aches but were very quickly forced to take to their beds.
  — Wendy Moore, Time, 28 Apr. 2020
• What these folks at Emory are doing would be more generalized.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• Past these changes, there are some fixes for Outpost rush, and then a bunch of generalized bug fixes.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• But the data that was made available was too generalized to be useful.
  — Kim Rich, Orange County Register, 20 May 2024
• The generalized focus of this story has of course been the staggering dollar value of the sale and the involvement of Christie's.
  — Nabyl Charania, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• The generalized level of consumer stress also varied by country, with the U.S. on the lower end of the spectrum for growth.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 17 Apr. 2025
• Some people think (a generalized cover) would ruin the street, but so what?
  — NOLA.com, 6 June 2017
• But Saccone's generalized comments — that the left hates God — are no more true than the idea that the right, the party that most white evangelicals align with, loves God.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
• Rather than asking Kris to wipe the mirror, or to be more careful, Kim launches straight for a generalized attack.
  — Jessica Bloom, The Cut, 21 May 2018
• Cube can be broken down into a few generalized steps – the first step, for example, could be to form a cross while the second step could be to put the corner pieces in place.
  — Forest Agostinelli, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2021
• But the study cites no generalized stay-at-home orders or business lockdowns.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
• Anxiety, on the other hand, refers to a generalized state of unease.
  — Jennifer Vishnevsky, Redbook, 9 June 2020
• Inflation is a generalized increase in the price of goods across the economy.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2021
• Amid the generalized atmosphere of seaminess, the specifics of the main characters’ lives get elided.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
• That influx is just a part of a generalized rise in Italy’s foreign population, which has tripled since 2000.
  — Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
• The generalized takeaway is that progress isn’t just about climbing a career ladder.
  — Michael B. Horn, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
• To me, Jones’s onscreen surliness often comes across as not much more than a kind of generalized misanthropy.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Those with a traumatic past could feel a generalized type of anxiety or stress.
  — Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
• The tool is also helping to chip away at more generalized packing problems.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2013
• There isn't a single cause of generalized hyperhidrosis, the IHS points out.
  — Cathy Cassata, Health.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• The heightened visual world is both sui generis and generalized, the town unpinpointed on a map.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2020
• At the start of an exercise program, the body’s adaptations are more generalized.
  — Randal Claytor, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
• The most obvious factor for the PRI’s rapid decline is a generalized rejection of the party.
  — Michael Lettieri, Washington Post, 30 June 2018
• Hands are typically next in line for precision, while bodies are often merely suggested with loose, generalized marks of the pen or brush, leaving room for a viewer’s perception to fill in vacancies.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025