Sentence examples for become so generic from inspiring English sources
Kim: "Yeah, but it's become so generic".
It was weird because something so special, magical, deep and meaningful for me has become so generic and a uniform in a way.
A few elements have by now become so generic -- like the gay best friend, the determination to model one's life after romantic old movies ("Breakfast at Tiffany's" this time), the parental nagging about marriage and children -- that it is no easier to say where they originated than to identify the first showdown in a western.
But in a filing on Wednesday with the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, Amazon said the term "app store" has become so generic that its use could not constitute false advertising.
Trademark lawyers have a name for this: "genericide" – when a trademark becomes so generic that there's no longer any association with a specific company.
No matter that they, like Chap Stick(R), Scotch R) Tape, Dumpster R and Dictaphone RR), have become so well known that they seem generic.
The idea is to turn a product into a household name without letting it become so common that it becomes a generic term, as Kleenex and Xerox have come close to doing.
Generic challenges to the patents of branded drugs have become so common that many analysts routinely discount them, especially with a drug as young as Plavix -- it has been on the market since only 1997.
The leisure suit has become so ubiquitous in the marketplace and in so short a period of time that it has become a generic term rather than a category of merchandise.
Xerox became so dominant that "xeroxing" became the generic term for "photocopying".
