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• v  draw from specific cases for more general cases
• v  speak or write in generalities
• v  cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
• v  become systemic and spread throughout the body
• s  not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment
  the hedgehog is a primitive and generalized mammal

• The problem, though neither Andrea nor her teacher knew it, was that her adolescent brain was being tossed by the neurochemical storms of generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive .
• In its various forms, ranging from very specific phobias to generalized anxiety disorder, it afflicts 19 million Americans (see "Are You Too Anxious?").
• Is your problem, perhaps, ADHD (attention-deficithyperactivity disorder), SAD (seasonal affective disorder) or GAD (generalized anxiety disorder)?.

• generalize
• generalise
• extrapolate
• infer
• popularize
• popularise
• vulgarize
• vulgarise
• generalised

• specify

News & Articles

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• U.S. says will review whether to suspend Ecuador's trade benefits
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it was launching a review of whether to suspend trade benefits for Ecuador, hours after that country's foreign minister said it was renouncing them. U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman told reporters the administration had accepted an industry petition to consider revoking Ecuador's benefits under the Generalized System of ...
  June 27, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Jacques Rogge in USA Today
  Some politicians have played with the idea of boycotts,Rogge said. "As I speak today, however, there is no momentum for a generalized boycott."
• Andrew Cuomo in Washington Post
  The code you have proposed is inadequate in that it does no more than recite vague, lofty goals of generalized ethical behavior,Cuomo wrote Dallas Martin, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
• Luis Amado in Reuters
  We have been in direct contact throughout the night with the prime minister of Guinea-Bissau precisely to guarantee that the process does not slide into a situation of generalized conflict,Foreign Minister Luis Amado said on SIC television.