Sentence examples for a generalization from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a generalization" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a broad conclusion or an abstract concept based on the observation of particular instances. For example: "The statement that all people are selfish is an overgeneralization."

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A pit-bull ban is a generalization about a generalization about a trait that is not, in fact, general.

A generalization?

That's obviously a generalization.

"It was a generalization, a euphemism.

We resent such a generalization among so much specific brilliance.

We say boys are stronger, faster, but that's a generalization".

And the second lesson was a generalization from the first.

If thinking about muscular terriers as pit bulls is a generalization, then thinking about dangerous dogs as anything substantially similar to a pit bull is a generalization about a generalization.

Orthogonal arrays are a generalization of orthogonal Latin squares.

Complex numbers are a generalization of the familiar decimal numbers that mathematicians call the real numbers.

A generalization linking race or ethnicity to crime will therefore inevitably sweep in many innocent people.

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