How to Use generalized in a Sentence

generalized

adjective
  • The patient has been experiencing generalized pain.
  • The sounds get slicker; the lyrics grow more generalized.
    Jon Pareles, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • Doomer Girl is, a month into her young life, a generalized prompt.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The last time the game industry saw a generalized price increase for big-budget, high-end games was the mid-'00s.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 2 July 2020
  • His show, and others, have been blurring the unrest seen in the wake of George Floyd's death with other, generalized types of crime.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 10 June 2020
  • There are two types of seizures, called generalized and focal.
    Jordan Strickler, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Victims first complained of sore throats, headaches, and generalized aches but were very quickly forced to take to their beds.
    Wendy Moore, Time, 28 Apr. 2020
  • What these folks at Emory are doing would be more generalized.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Past these changes, there are some fixes for Outpost rush, and then a bunch of generalized bug fixes.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The generalized focus of this story has of course been the staggering dollar value of the sale and the involvement of Christie's.
    Nabyl Charania, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Cube can be broken down into a few generalized steps – the first step, for example, could be to form a cross while the second step could be to put the corner pieces in place.
    Forest Agostinelli, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2021
  • But the study cites no generalized stay-at-home orders or business lockdowns.
    Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Anxiety, on the other hand, refers to a generalized state of unease.
    Jennifer Vishnevsky, Redbook, 9 June 2020
  • Inflation is a generalized increase in the price of goods across the economy.
    Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Amid the generalized atmosphere of seaminess, the specifics of the main characters’ lives get elided.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
  • To me, Jones’s onscreen surliness often comes across as not much more than a kind of generalized misanthropy.
    Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • There isn't a single cause of generalized hyperhidrosis, the IHS points out.
    Cathy Cassata, Health.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The heightened visual world is both sui generis and generalized, the town unpinpointed on a map.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2020
  • At the start of an exercise program, the body’s adaptations are more generalized.
    Randal Claytor, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2023
  • There is no generalized male viewer to entertain or put at ease.
    Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
  • Anglers might be tempted to use generalized hardware store models in a pinch.
    Pete Robbins, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
  • In the meantime, those interested in more generalized strike coverage should check out the site.
    Vulture, 3 May 2023
  • Agresta feels there’s no generalized way to counsel a woman about that, since such advice would be tailored to address where those concerns and fears stem from.
    Jackie Goldschneider, Good Housekeeping, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Be wary of vague job descriptions and generalized job titles.
    Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2021
  • For example, not every option on this list will target the neck or foot area and instead focus on the more generalized areas of the middle and lower back.
    Lauren Wellbank, Woman's Day, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The main theories revolve around Egregore, the corruptive darkness plant on the Leviathan, or a more generalized poison theme.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Once that’s done, the app will relaunched (with a new name to signify its more generalized identity, yet to be determined) and will remain a standalone app.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2021
  • By contrast, Toolformer can learn to use a range of tools in a generalized way that does not require specialized training for specific tasks.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Aside from the generalized rash, the patient had also been experiencing dizziness for about a week.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The thing is that the Tanaka equation (like all formulas used to estimate heart rate) was created to be a generalized method for predicting heart rate in healthy adults based on age.
    Alexa Tucker, SELF, 4 Dec. 2019

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