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What does generalize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word generalize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
  2. To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
  3. To derive or deduce (a general concept or principle) from particular facts.
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It is foolhardy to generalize about the political attitudes of 100 million peasants, except to say that they were far from being a cowed mass.
Such an extreme contrast should tell anyone how stupid it is to generalize about racism.
But to generalize from there to a secret cabal of Muslims in the military poised for terrorist action is more than a little bit of a stretch.
They also limit themselves to a very small sample of games from which they mistakenly try to generalize universal principles and properties.
If you're going to generalize about doctors, maybe you should be a little bit more wary about your sources.
Anthologies like this one invite us to generalize about differences between U.S. and U.K. poetics.

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