generically
- a word derived from generic.
Example Sentences
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I like that Lee threw some elbows to insist that her last novel, about an older woman’s affair with the lead singer of a boy band, was not generically a “romance,” thankyouverymuch.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
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
It advertises itself more generically, and there are plenty of non-Clark songs, mostly of the very, very familiar kind: “Rescue Me,” “Gimme Some Lovin’,” “Last Train to Clarksville” and so on.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024
We have been talking about chiefdoms generically, as if they were all the same.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
