as in general
belonging or relating to the whole
a love of big things—big cars, big meals—seems to be a generic trait of the American people
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Recent Examples of generic
Think of this as a V1.0 of a generic personalized delivery service.
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
These thoughtful touches reflect a design built around actual parenting demands rather than generic appliance specs.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 8 July 2025
Last month, ProPublica reported that a generic immunosuppression drug for transplant patients could dissolve too quickly when ingested, increasing the risk of kidney failure.
—Victoria Malis, ProPublica, 7 July 2025
The metal aspect of the music was pretty generic, a bland death/nu/core mixture.
—jsonline.com, 5 July 2025
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
These thoughtful touches reflect a design built around actual parenting demands rather than generic appliance specs.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 8 July 2025
Last month, ProPublica reported that a generic immunosuppression drug for transplant patients could dissolve too quickly when ingested, increasing the risk of kidney failure.
—Victoria Malis, ProPublica, 7 July 2025
The metal aspect of the music was pretty generic, a bland death/nu/core mixture.
—jsonline.com, 5 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for generic
Adjective
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That tracks with the general rhythm of a long-haul flight: meal service, lull, second meal, descent.—
Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
13 July 2025
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The Hot 100 is composed using a methodology that blends sales, streams, and radio activity, so the fact that the year-plus-old cut is still performing well enough to live within that competitive region on the general streaming and radio tallies shows that consumption is still high to this day.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
Adjective
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But overall crime, which includes nonviolent property crimes, is up 46% in Over-the-Rhine and Downtown, including a 12% uptick in violent crime, according to police statistics.—
Scott Wartman,
The Enquirer,
23 July 2025
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By driving up food prices extreme weather conditions can also worsen overall inflation, which can lead to political unrest and social upheaval, the researchers noted.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
22 July 2025
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There are several common areas to check for misconfigurations in a containerized environment.—
Margarita Simonova,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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Heartburn is a common side effect of using weight loss injections.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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As predicted in Destiny’s Child No Longer, the era of universal newborn genomic screening is dawning.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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If so, more space-efficient universal simulations would be impossible.—
Ben Brubaker,
Wired News,
13 July 2025
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“Generic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generic. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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