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generalize
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   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.01 sec.
generalize about someone or something and generalize on someone or something
to interpret someone or something in very general terms. Sometimes it isn't wise to generalize about a complicated issue. She is very complex and it is difficult to generalize on her.

generalize from something

to assume a general pattern in something from specific observances of something. You can hardly generalize from only two instances. You can't generalize anything from the testimony of a single witness!


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These are interrupted by essays that attempt to generalise, either by looking at other barriers--the US Mexico border fence--or by theorising, with the help of such as Levi Straus and the Internet.
A secondary aim was to provide the youth with a range of supplementary experiences to generalise the program's goals beyond the immediate learning context.
Puis, avec le rejet generalise de la pretention d'Agassiz d'avoir decouvert des depots glaciaires en Amazonie en 1866, l'idde a ete oubliee.
 
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