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Synonyms for generalize

Grammar : Verb
Spell : jen-er-uh-lahyz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz

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Définition of generalize

Origin :
  • 1751, probably a new formation from general (adj.) + -ize. Middle English had generalisen (early 15c.). Related: Generalizable; generalized; generalizing.
  • verb make a sweeping assumption, statement
Example sentences :
  • It is just as impossible to generalize granite and slate, as it is to generalize a man and a cow.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • There are too many words as well as too few; and they generalize the objects or ideas which they represent.
  • Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
  • It may be said that these were excrescences or city fashions; that one must not generalize.
  • Extract from : « The New Society » by Walther Rathenau
  • It is easier to generalize in this manner than to produce documents in proof.
  • Extract from : « The Science of Fairy Tales » by Edwin Sidney Hartland
  • It is dangerous to generalize from events not really settled.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • Nor is it safe to generalize about him, or any other bird for that matter.
  • Extract from : « A Bird-Lover in the West » by Olive Thorne Miller
  • I am beginning to generalize—the very thing I was resolute to avoid.
  • Extract from : « McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 » by Various
  • We can only generalize as to when and how extensive this substitution of wheat for tobacco may have been.
  • Extract from : « Tobacco in Colonial Virginia » by Melvin Herndon
  • When one sets out to generalize he does so at his own peril.
  • Extract from : « Flash-lights from the Seven Seas » by William L. Stidger
  • Some of the details she had forgotten, as she grew more and more to generalize.
  • Extract from : « Story of My Life » by Helen Keller

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