as in stereotype
an idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation
the generalization that children who like violent entertainment grow up to be violent criminals
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Recent Examples of generalization
Sex and season both play a role in how sharks respond to artificial feeding, meaning broad generalizations about its impacts could be misleading.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Helix displays strong object generalization, being able to pick up thousands of novel household items with varying shapes, sizes, colors, and material properties never encountered before in training simply by asking in natural language.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 20 Feb. 2025
Encouraging a healthier mindset can be achieved without relying on inaccurate cultural generalizations.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
What are the advances of Gemini Robotics? Carolina Parada, head of robotics at Google DeepMind, said in the briefing that the new models improve over the company’s prior robots in three dimensions: generalization, adaptability, and dexterity.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2025
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Helix displays strong object generalization, being able to pick up thousands of novel household items with varying shapes, sizes, colors, and material properties never encountered before in training simply by asking in natural language.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 20 Feb. 2025
Encouraging a healthier mindset can be achieved without relying on inaccurate cultural generalizations.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
What are the advances of Gemini Robotics? Carolina Parada, head of robotics at Google DeepMind, said in the briefing that the new models improve over the company’s prior robots in three dimensions: generalization, adaptability, and dexterity.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for generalization
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As a result of their high cash flow generation and low growth prospects, utilities have also correctly fallen into the high dividend payer stereotype.—
Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington,
CNBC,
8 Apr. 2025
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Some of the members were introduced with nicknames, including Belle (who wore makeup associated with Latina stereotypes) as Lil Taco Belle, Natty as NT and Haneul as Bob Sky.—
Jack Irvin,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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And now, the time was ripe to take its concept on the road.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025
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But is this really a new concept, or just a rebranding?—
Ruhama Wolle,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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Dozens of Arab and Muslim-majority countries have rejected the notion as ethnic cleansing.—
Daniel Estrin,
NPR,
11 Mar. 2025
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And the notion of the resource team working with troublemakers doesn’t sit well with some officers not involved in the pilots at Garner and York.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
10 Mar. 2025
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Primary care physicians know that every American has a stake in our health care system from the moment of conception until the last heartbeat and every day in between.—
Primary care physicians,
Hartford Courant,
6 Apr. 2025
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Kylee Pucci is a six-time egg donor and has a unique relationship with her biological daughter Comments Egg donation provides families with the chance to experience parenthood when natural conception isn't possible.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Even if someone attempted to build one of the machines depicted in these blueprints, however, researchers point out that undecidability is a feature of physical theories and cannot literally exist in real experiments.—
Charlie Wood,
Wired News,
6 Apr. 2025
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One of Hennigan’s leading theories is that the Grimes girls’ murders have a possible link to the 1955 murders of three young brothers, John, Anton, and Robert Schuessler, according to local WGN.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Generalization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generalization. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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