How to Use generalization in a Sentence

generalization

noun

• She was prone to generalization.
• He made several sweeping generalizations about women.
• At the risk of gross over generalization, doctors tend to avoid change.
  — Robert H. Shmerling, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• These broad, smug generalizations are not only on the left, of course.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Aug. 2017
• But over six months, as the sample size grows and starts to reduce the noise, some generalizations start to surface.
  — SI.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• To say the Cowboys have fallen short on all third downs would be a generalization.
  — Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
• That may be massive generalization, but still, shopping for the men in your life is no easy feat.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 13 June 2017
• The other key generalization is that these costs can be brought down.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2020
• There are also exceptions to generalizations that can and should be made about the traits of a race and culture.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 27 Apr. 2018
• This turns out to be a generalization of the Elo rating system, which is used to rank players in chess and other games.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2023
• But this is a gross generalization, and a complete guess.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2011
• In fact, for curved spaces, the shortest path is what’s known as a geodesic: the generalization of a straight, flat line to a curved space.
  — Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
• This is an over-generalization, of course, but there’s truth behind it.
  — Jeff Abbott, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• The generalization takes away from the bite of the observation.
  — refinery29.com, 25 May 2018
• This result and its generalization were obtained by Joerg Fricke (see here and here) and Michael.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Dec. 2016
• Then there were the generalizations being thrown around, a blame-the-media game that was transparent and tiresome.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019
• People who present opinions as fact or make broad generalizations may need to be reminded of the truth.
  — oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2020
• The way Coyne made his blanket generalization was lame.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2013
• Beyond the fact of their ubiquity, there are no generalizations to be made about these spaces.
  — M.h. Miller Miranda Barnes, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• KaptainKielbasa also reminds viewers of the maps that these are generalizations, and of course, done in good fun.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2018
• As a broad generalization, walleyes will hang out in shallower water (think sandy flats and near rocky shorelines) in spring.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 13 June 2024
• That's a generalization, for sure, because our red regions are painted a deep, deep red.
  — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• The memo, in which Damore also made generalizations about gender and the kind of work better suited to men and women, led to his firing from the company.
  — Tracey Lien, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
• That may be a generalization, but history bears out the gist of what Smith suggested.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Big cities get a bad rap for being overly noisy and devoid of quiet spaces, but that may be a generalization.
  — Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 2 Oct. 2015
• And while that is partly true — there are three flight schools based at the airport — Rutka said the generalization ignores other functions of the airport.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• But that generalization hides a major, growing gender gap among the young folks.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 21 June 2018
• But there are exceptions, as there always are, to that kind of generalization.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
• Humans have relied on generalizations forever as a mental shortcut — and a way of running a business efficiently.
  — David Weinberger michele Zanini, Harvard Business Review, 29 July 2024
• In an age of scalability and mass production, the idea that specificity can lead to generalization may seem counterintuitive.
  — Lara Devgan, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024