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Instead, he has more generically invoked the example of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who in the mid-1990s held off on raising interest rates as the economy expanded steadily because inflation pressures were mild.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Captured M23 fighters said that the Rwandans were known as the "Friendly Force", with the experts' December report saying the English term was "generically used" even when interviewees were speaking in other languages.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025

Leqembi, known generically as lecanemab, is a monoclonal antibody that works to remove a protein called amyloid from the brain.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024

The story hangs on Ron Livingston’s Peter Gibbons, an unremarkable 20-something slouching through a McJob at a generically named bank software company called Initech.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2024

Ahead of them, he could see towering cabinets full of interconnected wires and cables and silicon chips—what he thought of generically as computer stuff.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix