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- noun Plural form of
generalization .
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Examples
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I believe that I succumbed to temptation, your example of smear thy enemy with the straw man, pejorative generalizations, is so alluring, one can not resist.
Waldo Jaquith - Fact check: Climatologists never forecast a coming ice age. 2007
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Though I agree that generalizations is likely to occur and categorizations will take place but I think the local and state will do what is right.
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More than a few scholars and devotees of Eliot's oeuvre have gone to great lengths to convey that certain generalizations can be made regarding the natures and functions of the corresponding sections of the poems.
Where Time and the Timeless Intersect James Zinsmeister 2010
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The effect of these kinds of generalizations is dehumanization, and the ultimate outcome, is violence.
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` One of our generalizations is that every system founded upon class and caste contains within itself the germs of its own decay.
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Please speak in generalizations if possible, because they seem to ring true for the men in my city.
Carolyn Hax: Once-indifferent dad now wants to be close Carolyn Hax 2010
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Obviously, there are certain generalizations you can make about this generation, based largely on the cultural influences that have acted upon the boomers as they have gone through their various life stages.
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The problem with generalizations is that they are general.
What’s Behind the Gender Gap in Education? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The distinction between laws and accidental generalizations is a matter of degree.
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Stereotypical reaction to make sweeping generalizations from a short passage like this.
HH Com 657 Miss Snark 2006
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