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Recent Examples of generalist
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.
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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
By the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, most of the survivors were the semiaquatic generalists and one group of aquatic carnivores.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Apr. 2025
How to leverage time-for-money into long-term wealth Pick one niche and become irreplaceable
Specialists earn more than generalists.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
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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
By the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, most of the survivors were the semiaquatic generalists and one group of aquatic carnivores.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Apr. 2025
How to leverage time-for-money into long-term wealth Pick one niche and become irreplaceable
Specialists earn more than generalists.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for generalist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for generalist
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However, some cooks find that this is a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none situation — an electric tortilla maker doesn’t produce the same quality of tortilla as a manual one.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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Oz then recognizes an opportunity to audition Vic as a jack-of-all-trades amid his bid to grab power following the Riddler’s murder of Gotham’s most notorious crime lord (and Oz’s boss), Carmine Falcone (John Turturro), in The Batman.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
9 June 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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The Papal Gentlemen—laymen who attend to the Pope’s private needs and aid in his displays of hospitality and diplomacy—acted as pallbearers in black suits, carrying the unadorned wooden casket that held Francis’s body.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
27 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 4 Jul. 2025.
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