generalize
verb (used with object)
to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
generalizer
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a word derived from
generalize.
Example Sentences
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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
When these foundations are lacking, the child is the great generalizer.
From More Hunting Wasps by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
With pardonable exaggeration the admiring followers of the great generalizer pronounced this epitaph: "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said 'Let Newton be!' and all was light."
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Henry Smith Williams
