Sentence examples for an overgeneralization from inspiring English sources

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That's probably an overgeneralization, though Mr. Moran's screen name, Coolio, doesn't sound especially threatening.

Conversely, learners' address-form production exhibited an overgeneralization of T, a result that starkly contrasts with the overgeneralization of V found in previous studies.

So, as Locke incipiently recognizes as early as E1 but explicitly underlines in E5, his initial answer to the first question is an overgeneralization, and needs to be restricted to those actions that are proposed to us as presently to be done (see Rickless 2000: 49–55; Glauser 2003: 710; Garrett 2015: 274 277).

1. Feminist work since the 1990s has questioned this divide between sex and gender and criticized both categories, suggesting both that sex is not a biological given, and that the category of gender suffers from an overgeneralization across women's varying experiences (Nicholson 1998).

At worst, his statements on Islam might have been an overgeneralization of certain facts, perhaps taken out of context or made without reference to political or global realities.

For this reason, it may be an overgeneralization to assume that NF-κB functions are the same in astrocytes and macrophages/microglia despite superficial similarities in cytokine release.

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For example, a recent dense-database study of the transitive causative construction (Theakston, Maslen, Lieven, & Tomasello, 2012) failed to find a single overgeneralization error of the type observed in Bowerman's (1988) diary study (* He giggled me, *She came it over there and * I'm just gonna fall this on her).

Increased MPFC volume, consonant with enhanced structural connectivity, suggests a long-time overgeneralization of structural connectivity and a role of this area in the mediation of clinical severity.

The present study used a prospective behavioral high-risk design to evaluate the impact of positive overgeneralization, a cognitive correlate of risk for hypomania, on hypomanic symptoms in individuals with high vs. moderate BAS sensitivity, but without a history of mood elevation.

Because this is a case report, overgeneralization of the results should be avoided, and more systematic research, such as randomized, controlled, blinded studies, should be carried out.

As Elshtain's stately summaries of Addams's pronouncements roll on, her voice winds around her subject's, creating odd moments of piety, homiletics and overgeneralization: "Without a mooring in a moral purpose, life scatters, falters, and dries up"; "The modern city degrades what should be exalted".

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