How to Use generative in a Sentence

generative

adjective
  • To be useful, generative video must do more than shock.
    Victor Riparbelli, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • With a dataset in place, the researchers used a two-step process to create the generative video.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2018
  • And that was a very sort of creative and generative thought exercise for me.
    Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2017
  • When you got involved in this project, was the generative aspect of the movie already part of it?
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • To be decolonial is to dream, to imagine, and to be generative.
    Amanda Alcantara, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
  • But in the generative space, that’s just not how this technology works.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • Their feedback was the thing that was sort of most generative for me and most interesting.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Roblox did not build a better generative model.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Some people who use generative AI are apt to take a one-and-done approach.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The great thing is, generative AI will never come to the office tired.
    Alana Semuels, Time, 11 May 2025
  • It can also be applied as a generative act when things are difficult or when the person makes no sense to you.
    Dede Henley, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • But even skin and scalp maintenance gets simpler since our bodies are super generative and do a lot of the work for us.
    Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, impressive generative tools can produce world-class images and videos.
    Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • But the generative forces that reclaimed this bay for flora and fauna can also destroy.
    Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The hollow is rich and generative, a lacuna of a kind Ball has mastered.
    Ellie Robins, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Some circles encourage silence, not as a time to squirm, but as the most generative time for listening.
    Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The generative tools used do not store, reuse, or train on production data inputs or outputs.
    PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The subject of real estate is a provocative and generative one in Cusk studies.
    Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 June 2021
  • This is the spot where generative-AI hype seems to come most unmoored from reality.
    David Karpf, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Travel—and the act of writing about it—has always been generative, even if not everyone has been permitted to speak.
    Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Not routine expense reports or emails, but the messy, generative work of brainstorming and writing.
    Vicki Phillips, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • The show, with its scrappy, ad-hoc energy and first-rate works, is an admirable, and, one hopes, generative, circling of the wagons.
    The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • There is no precedent for the speed and scale of generative AI, which will hit all white-collar jobs—soon and everywhere.
    Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Going forward, a lot of us are going to have to make that decision about generative AI.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Sora generative video model allows users to create social-media-ready videos with just a brief text prompt.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Like all other generative chatbots, its replies are sycophantic.
    Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026
  • For Calle, desire—in the Freudian sense of longing for what is not there—was a generative formal constraint.
    Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The stakes are high, as generative tools and pipeline innovations are reshaping the industry at a high speed.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • Every few days or weeks, Art Blocks released a generative art project very much in the vein of Autoglyphs.
    Sandra Upson, Wired, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Most of the generative-AI products that doctors use today seem to meet these criteria.
    Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026

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