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Recent Examples of generalist
The experts still needed to trade some information with one another, and the generalist — which had a decent but not detailed understanding of each subject — could help coordinate interactions between the experts.
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Cade Metz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Being a generalist, in my view, is becoming increasingly risky in marketing.
—Dan Kahn, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Reach out to people, don’t hesitate to ask questions and don’t always focus on specializing—the world out there today is (often) seeking generalists.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
The beat has passed through many hands, and most who tackled it were not sartorial obsessives but, rather, gregarious generalists.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
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Cade Metz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Being a generalist, in my view, is becoming increasingly risky in marketing.
—Dan Kahn, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Reach out to people, don’t hesitate to ask questions and don’t always focus on specializing—the world out there today is (often) seeking generalists.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
The beat has passed through many hands, and most who tackled it were not sartorial obsessives but, rather, gregarious generalists.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for generalist
Noun
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Baldwin’s line-drive stroke from both sides of the plate increases his value as a jack-of-all-trades sort.—
Chuck Murr,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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This jack-of-all-trades approach, at a starting price of only $2,368, resulted in 420,000 examples being sold the first year.—
Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
23 June 2025
Noun
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India’s lower batting order stunk the place out in layman’s terms - a crucial difference between winning and losing.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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The immaculate print appeared to this layman’s eye to look about as sharp as contemporary digital Imax, but with the celluloid origins and print adding additional richness.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2025
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David Byrne came from Baltimore by way of Scotland, a socially awkward dabbler in conceptualist experiments with photography and a veteran of various mediocre cover bands.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2025
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Where Sun is a dabbler, Geffen is an established connoisseur.—
Rachel Corbett,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Generalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generalist. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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