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How to use generalize in a sentence

18 example sentences · verb

Generalize means to speak in generalities, or in vague terms. Example: “The field of mathematics that these generalize to is known as algebraic number theory.”

More sentences with generalize

  • The field of mathematics that these generalize to is known as algebraic number theory.2008, Steven H. Weintraub, Factorization: Unique and Otherwise, CRC Press, page 143. From the entry algebraic number theory
  • We introduce admissible partitions of Coxeter diagrams in order to generalize this situation.1993, B. Mühlherr, “Coxeter groups in Coxeter groups”, in Albrecht Beutelspacher, F. Buekenhout, J. Doyen, F. de Clerck, J. A. Thas, J. W.…. From the entry Coxeter diagram
  • The whole issue of generalizing and overgeneralizing is always an issue.1992, ASNE: Proceedings of the 1992 Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Easton, Pa.: American Society of Newspaper…. From the entry archetype
  • Incelism tends to generalize beyond just a disdain for women and reflects a general contempt for the world at large.2019, Ramani S. Durvasula, "Don't You Know Who I Am?", page 314. From the entry incelism
  • We also obtain epimorphicity criteria for subgroups of affine algebraic groups, which generalize a result of Bien and Borel..2016, Michel Brion, “Epimorphic subgroups of algebraic groups”, in arXiv. From the entry epimorphicity
  • We generalize the theorem of Kleiner to spaces with bicombings.2015, Dominic Descombes, “Asymptotic rank of spaces with bicombings”, in arXiv. From the entry bicombings
  • Although this clearing and unclearing can occur repeatedly, the current BAGGER algorithm is unable to generalize number within unwindable subproofs.2012, Gerald DeJong, Investigating Explanation-Based Learning, page 108. From the entry unclear
  • What it generalizes to is the proposition that where following a law does more harm than good, it should be broken.2012, Leo Katz, Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law. From the entry do more harm than good
  • The idea of chymistry meant many things to many people of the period, and it is very dangerous to generalize.2006, Daniel Garber, “Physics and Foundations”, in Katharine Park, editor, Early Modern Science (Cambridge History of Science), volume 3…. From the entry chymistry
  • The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality.1949, Wilson Library Bulletin,, volume 24, page 241. From the entry nonsensify
  • Impressionism is the generalizing of the subject-matter as a whole and the expression of only its salient features.1915, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Outdoor Sketching, page 62. From the entry detailist
  • More significantly, Rota-Baxter operators on totally compatible dialgebras provide a uniform framework to generalize known results that Rota-Baxter related operators give tridendriform algebras.2015, Yong Zhang, Chengming Bai, Li Guo, “Totally compatible associative and Lie dialgebras, tridendriform algebras and PostLie algebras”…. From the entry tridendriform
  • We extend this very concept to the larger mathematical object, which generalizes the quaternion, the hexadecanion, which we shall define and use.2013 March, Salomon S Mizrahi and Marcos C de Oliveira, “Quaternions, hexadecanions and the Schur complement in quantum mechanics”, in…. From the entry hexadecanion
  • If I may generalize from my own experience, we more often than not get up without any struggle or decision at all.1918, William James, chapter 26, in The Principles of Psychology. From the entry get up
  • Generalizing harshly and broadly but implying “you know which ones I mean” is an intellectual and rhetorical laziness that is not allowed to pass anywhere else in these communities.2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium. From the entry laziness
  • Others generalize a formula of P.Hall, replacing the class of abelian p-groups by subclasses, or by isoclinism classes of non-abelian groups, also by replacing automorphism groups by holomorphs, etc.2015, Avinoam Mann, “Some group theoretical mass formulae”, in arXiv. From the entry isoclinism
  • The Jacobi symbol, which generalizes the Legendre symbol, sheds some additional light on how to determine whether (7.29) has solutions when m has two or more distinct prime factors.2006, Neville Robbins, Beginning Number Theory, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett, page 195. From the entry Legendre symbol
  • Gombrich generalizes his argument: all norms of progress misvalue art by over-rating their own achievement, under-rating other styles, and by viewing previous styles as precursors to their own work.1994, Sheldon Saul Richmond, Aesthetic Criteria: Gombrich and the Philosophies of Science of Popper and Polanyi, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry misvalue

Meaning of generalize

  1. verb To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
  2. verb To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
  3. verb To spread throughout the body and become systemic.

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Questions about generalize in a sentence

How do you use generalize in a sentence?
Generalize is used as a verb. For example: “The field of mathematics that these generalize to is known as algebraic number theory.”
What is a short sentence with generalize?
“We generalize the theorem of Kleiner to spaces with bicombings.”
What does generalize mean?
Generalize means to speak in generalities, or in vague terms.

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