generalize
verb (used with object)
to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
generalizing
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present participleof generalize.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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If this were a one-off event, we would want to avoid generalizing.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
The two agencies routinely assert that they explain the methods used, but their generalizing descriptions—some of the language of which they’ve repeated for over a decade—don’t come close to routine standards for economic scholarship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
In the next months, Svoboda and the scientists from the Chatterjee group will work on generalizing their results to other games and different settings.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2024
“China believes that generalizing national security is not conducive to normal economic and trade exchanges,” Xinhua said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2023
Dobzhansky could now restate the essential truth of Mendel’s discovery—a gene determines a physical feature—by generalizing that idea across multiple genes and multiple features: a genotype determines a phenotype.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
