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The phrase "a generalised term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a word or phrase that encompasses a broad category or concept.
Example: "In biology, 'organism' is a generalised term that includes all living entities, from single-celled bacteria to complex multicellular animals."
Alternatives: "a broad term" or "a generic term".
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In reality, "religion" is a generalised term.
As with many conditions where the true pathology is unclear, CPHP has become a generalised term encompassing a broad spectrum of conditions affecting the heel, including subcalcaneal bursitis, neuritis, plantar fasciitis and subcalcaneal spur [ 4, 5].
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Now, it seems, indignation is becoming a generalised condition.
Specific seed lots are referred to using the GF number (based on measurements of growth and form of known parent trees) with either the suffix 'S' to denote a seedling or 'C' to indicate a cutting; otherwise, the generalised terms 'seed lot' or 'plant material type' are used.
Under Blunkett and Tony Blair there was the merest lip service to the "British way of life" - meaning its liberal achievements in free speech, privacy, personal autonomy of the citizen, and the margin of individuality that all this implies - as defended in characteristically generalised terms by Blair in a speech made in Scotland when news of the 7/7 atrocity reached him.
With respect to the latter, this typically entails some form of prediction, either at the fine spatio-temporal granularity which, for example, might be required for a strategy of 'hotspot policing' (Chainey and Ratcliffe2005), or in the more generalised terms which might be used to inform long-term policy.
For example, Health Care Assistant 3 began describing her patients' busy-ness in generalised terms but the language became more vivid, suggesting an empathic position which may also fit her own situation.
But that's just my own view, and therein lies the problem in talking about stigma in such generalised terms.
"Many scholars of American culture," she writes in rather too generalised terms, "see our national preoccupation with female rescue as mere cover story, a pretext employed to justify the sanguinary pleasure our pioneers took in the slaughter of the continent's natives and the decimation of the wilderness.
From critical terms like 'slag' and 'slut' to irreversible indictments like 'damaged goods' or more generalised terms like 'bird' or 'chick', these labels put women firmly in their place and make them nice and easy to deal with.
These queries are similar to 'drill down' browsing searches and 'fuzzy' queries using generalised terms.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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