Example Sentences

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Their ability to predict which enhancer variants will alter genomic instructions is not limited to limbs and generalizes to thousands of enhancers across cell types and species.

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2024

And things become really exciting when one generalizes the concept of happy numbers.

From Scientific American • Oct. 24, 2023

“Outlier II” involves an A.I.-generated melody that generalizes over time, gradually losing nuance before being disrupted by a series of chance-based improvisations.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

That's something we know that generalizes across all these different categories of secrets.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2022

As a moral declaration the old truism seems perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can’t believe it with my stomach.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien