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generalize /gen·er·al·ize/ (-ĭz)
1. to spread throughout the body, as when local disease becomes systemic.
2. to form a general principle; to reason inductively.

gen·er·al·ize (jnr--lz)
v.
1. To reduce to a general form, class, or law.
2. To render indefinite or unspecific.
3. To infer from many particulars.
4. To draw inferences or a general conclusion from.
5. To make generally or universally applicable.


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Everything I have written about the European Union is not, as he generalises, "from a position of complete ignorance", but from a long study of the history of its origins in the 1920s in the minds of men such as Arthur Salter, Monnet and Spinelli, and later, the assistance of the Nazis, the CIA and the Bilderbergers.
Byrne (1998, cited in Wyse, 2000) said that once preschoolers have the idea of phoneme identity for a small number of sounds, it generalises unaided to other sounds, which implies that in supporting phonemic awareness development for most students, it is not necessary to work laboriously through all the sounds of the language.
56) If one generalises (2) and (4) sets of rights to "control right" and (3) to alienation right, then this bundle of rights was consistent with Cheung's definition.
 
 
 
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