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as in notions
an idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation
the idea that all boys are naturally messy is a gross generality
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as in weights
the main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts
an important but little-known Scottish inventor whose work was never appreciated by the generality of the public
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as in majorities
the largest part or quantity of something
the generality of that high school's students will go on to college
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Recent Examples of generalities
Ingram advises people to move beyond generalities and define their values with precision, then rank them.
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Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
Carl eventually proposed some generalities.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
Too often, political coverage avoids difficult questions entirely or allows politicians to speak in vague generalities without scrutiny.
—Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 15 May 2026
But moving beyond these generalities to specifics is hard, says Thomas Timberlake, an ecologist at the University of York.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 6 May 2026
Enough with the vague generalities.
—Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Be specific Too many job ads read like form letters, full of generalities and corporate-speak.
—Kat Boogaard, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2026
Even questions about his rehab were met with vague generalities.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
In following her to this point, however, this long-game project gives remarkable dimension and particularity to the kind of migrant story often only told in journalistic generalities — showing, year on year, how time heals some wounds, opens others, and creates plenty of its own.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2026
Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
Carl eventually proposed some generalities.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
Too often, political coverage avoids difficult questions entirely or allows politicians to speak in vague generalities without scrutiny.
—Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 15 May 2026
But moving beyond these generalities to specifics is hard, says Thomas Timberlake, an ecologist at the University of York.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 6 May 2026
Enough with the vague generalities.
—Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Be specific Too many job ads read like form letters, full of generalities and corporate-speak.
—Kat Boogaard, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2026
Even questions about his rehab were met with vague generalities.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
In following her to this point, however, this long-game project gives remarkable dimension and particularity to the kind of migrant story often only told in journalistic generalities — showing, year on year, how time heals some wounds, opens others, and creates plenty of its own.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for generalities
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Talks would persist for the next two years, often in quiet, until the event that would shatter all notions of complacency toward the Israeli-Palestinian status quo.—
Jennifer Cunningham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Dec. 2025
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My mother taught literature at a college on Long Island and had notions about where to send me.—
Joan Silber,
New Yorker,
30 Nov. 2025
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One simple explanation for Wyoming wolves having heavier weights, as wildlife managers point out in their report, is that most states just aren’t tracking wolf size as closely.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
11 June 2026
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Hold the weights in place with your hands.—
Jenessa Connor,
Health,
10 June 2026
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The new report came as Republican majorities in Congress approved a $70 billion funding package this week for ICE and other aspects of the president’s mass immigrant detention and deportation efforts.—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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That was thanks in part to his relative success in the state legislature, despite Democratic majorities in both chambers.—
Paul Boger,
NPR,
10 June 2026
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And research suggests such stereotypes aren’t far off.—
Anirban Mukhopadhyay,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
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This includes studying how children develop false stereotypes about who can become a scientist.—
Remy Dou,
The Conversation,
10 June 2026
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Our bodies were designed to metabolize naturally occurring and whole foods, but the same can’t necessarily be said for UPFs, explained Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.—
Brian Mastroianni,
Health,
21 Aug. 2025
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As the water is likely to demonstrate as Erin batters the coast, the islands face threats not only from the ocean, but also from the large bodies of water to the west, the Albemarle, Pamlico and Currituck Sounds.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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Prominently, Laviolette’s teams have featured defensemen who liberally join the rush and get involved in five-man cycles, concepts that were largely foreign to the Kings’ corps last season.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
11 June 2026
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At the same time, some of the concepts that dominate fashion industry lingo barely registered among respondents.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
11 June 2026
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Close to 80% of entertainment move-in activity between 2019 and 2026 happened outside urban cores, and median venue size jumped nearly 50% over the same period — a reflection of how dominant the larger-format concepts have become in markets where both the space and the customer base exist.—
Naveen Jaggi,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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From the 1950s through the 1970s, computers stored data in ceramic rings called cores.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
1 June 2026
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Zachary Slepian, an astrophysicist at the University of Florida and a member of the DESI team, doesn’t think the new data represent enough evidence to abandon current cosmological conceptions.—
Sarah Scoles,
JSTOR Daily,
31 July 2025
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This is one of the counts on which Texan conceptions of our history arguably serve us very poorly.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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“Generalities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generalities. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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