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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Now, this is a generalization, but on the whole, whether the niceness is genuine or not, people won’t be openly bigoted.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• Okay, full disclosure: The above is a blatant generalization based on a handful of signs Aussies and Kiwis have shown off over the last couple of weeks during the royal tour.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 28 Oct. 2018
• Cory Booker often speaks about God in generalizations that can feel bland.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2019
• The idea that handsome people can’t be funny is far too sweeping a generalization.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Now, of course, there are many exceptions to these generalizations.
  — Robert Samuelson, Twin Cities, 25 Aug. 2019
• All of it involves gross generalizations that don’t take into account the perspective of the woman.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 30 May 2018
• In Range Epstein makes a very compelling case for generalization.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 9 June 2019
• This is a gross generalization, unfair to many, but the impression of a slough in art history is unshakable.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• Here, as elsewhere, the striking phrase tips over beyond sweeping generalization to land askew.
  — Richard Lea, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• The best that could be hoped for would be some broad generalizations about peaceful use of cyberspace, which might be sandwiched in a larger statement about good relations between the two sides.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 1 June 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024