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
  • And in spite, or maybe because of, our generalized A.I. angst, there are plenty of robo-tales to choose from these days.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • 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
  • This level of precision isn’t possible in generalized platforms trying to cover dozens of workflows at once.
    Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025

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