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Proust is a confident generalizer, seeking on every page the rules of love, memory, and life.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 18, 2016

He has the indispensable arrogance of a born generalizer who, with mixed success, has assigned himself such breathtaking abstractions as The Soul of China and The Soul of India.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lehmbruck was an excellent generalizer but an undistinguished portraitist.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was no philosophical thinker, no generalizer, no path-maker in science.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington

For it is fair to credit the broadest generalizer with all the particulars deducible from his thesis.

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo