generalize
verb (used with object)
to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
generalizes
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present tense formof generalize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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"The same neural signature -- reward up, control down under rivalry -- likely generalizes beyond sport to political and sectarian conflicts."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
If Hu and his colleagues can show this behavior generalizes to other materials, he says, physicists may have to revise established models for environments such as outer space or planetary interiors, including Earth's.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 28, 2023
That's something we know that generalizes across all these different categories of secrets.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2022
I take issue with the framing of this article that generalizes crime by guards as the problem plaguing prisons.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
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
