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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overgeneralize .
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Examples
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But if rabbinic leadership requires authenticity, then I, like so many others, must be allowed to lead from within the gray space I inhabit between the overgeneralized norms that seldom apply to anyone.
Joshua Stanton: Overcoming Clergy Gender Norms Joshua Stanton 2011
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But if rabbinic leadership requires authenticity, then I, like so many others, must be allowed to lead from within the gray space I inhabit between the overgeneralized norms that seldom apply to anyone.
Joshua Stanton: Overcoming Clergy Gender Norms Joshua Stanton 2011
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Making overgeneralized scurrilous statements is irresponsible.
The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus 2010
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Your statement is so overgeneralized that it really makes you look foolish.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » US College Promotes Weight Bias and Discrimination? 2009
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I have the same awareness of subgenre sales trends that most of you do, which is to say mostly anecdotal and probably overgeneralized.
Fantasy 2035 « 2009
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The Fed being a bank holds debt, Treasury debt traditionally and not mortgage backed securities and some other overgeneralized debt obligations, as assets.
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It's surely overgeneralized and possibly plain wrong, cause wtf do I know about movies?
Beastly Bride interview wiv me shweta_narayan 2010
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I have lived in the South, specifically Georgia, for three years and your overgeneralized statement about blacks is way off base.
Obama camp out with new gas tax ad, Clinton camp fires back 2008
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Etc.etc. My guess is that some McCain campaign staffer heard her bobble a question or expression confusion over some Africa-related issue, and overgeneralized.
Waldo Jaquith - Media and bloggers fall for clever hoaxer. 2008
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If so, I can accept the implicit critique even if it was manifestly overgeneralized and needlessly contemptuous (as were Gessen and Roth's further comments at The Millions, TEV, and The Valve.)
Statement of Purpose 2008
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