generalise
IPA: dʒˈɛnɝʌɫˈis
verb
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of generalize. [To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.]
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Examples of "generalise" in Sentences
- Assistant Village Idiot: cityduck — generalise much?
- Assistant Village Idiot says: cityduck — generalise much?
- I don't disagree with him, but one cannot generalise from a couple of superficial examples.
- While it is never correct to "generalise", SOME younger women haven't had a lot of life experience and just aren't that attracted to the "nice guys".
- I agree many of these officers are shunted off to work in some obscure post instead of being asked to leave, but i think it is an extreme arrogance on behalf of TA posters to 'generalise' that regs can't mange TA soldiers.
- 'Great inventors in all ages knew this -- Michael Angelo and Albert Durer are known by this and by this alone'; and another time he wrote, with all the simple directness of nineteenth-century prose, 'to generalise is to be an idiot.'
- "It is hard to generalise because there is a spectrum, but actually the women I have worked with over the years certainly don't seek confrontation and would tend to try to avoid it, which would be consistent with this pre-empting of criticism and anxiety, I suppose; hedging, using humour to soften things."
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