Example Sentences

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Cannistraro, 52, has generalized anxiety disorder and has never taken medication for it.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2022

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 3.1% of the U.S. population has generalized anxiety disorder, and 18% experience some significant anxiety each year.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2020

The understanding has generalized simply and hastily, without seeking for justification.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

Professor C. Lapworth has generalized the grand features of crustal relief in a scheme of attractive simplicity.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

Connecting this history and character with their maritime position, we are led to apply a remark which our American historian Prescott has generalized from the circumstances of a people not dissimilarly situated.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord