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Recent Examples of generalist
The underlying large language models powering chatbots are generalists, limiting their usefulness in specialized domains that demand higher precision.
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Harry Booth, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Some organizations, such as the WHO, have sought to create a staff of generalists by rotating their employees between their Geneva, Switzerland, headquarters and their regional and field offices.
—Tine Hanrieder, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2016
The second kind of viewer, Jelley tells me, is more of an Olympics generalist.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 26 July 2024
Many insurance companies are generalists that use third-party software to measure wildfire risk.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
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Harry Booth, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
Some organizations, such as the WHO, have sought to create a staff of generalists by rotating their employees between their Geneva, Switzerland, headquarters and their regional and field offices.
—Tine Hanrieder, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2016
The second kind of viewer, Jelley tells me, is more of an Olympics generalist.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 26 July 2024
Many insurance companies are generalists that use third-party software to measure wildfire risk.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for generalist
Noun
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Goldfield has a field day as the jack-of-all-trades servant.Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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In creating jacks-of-all-trades, there aren’t many masters-of-one left, and even fewer age-appropriate apprentices around to take the lead.Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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Their argument becomes harder to make when the results continue to disappoint in similar ways, at least to the layman’s eye.Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
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In layman’s terms, with the hair follicle destroyed, hair cannot grow.Iman Balagam, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024
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Others are simply dabblers, like Justin Liam O’Brien.Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2024
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In David Epstein’s ‘Range’, dabblers and dillettantes are ascendant.Big Think, Big Think, 24 June 2024
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“Generalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generalist. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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