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Recent Examples of generalist
Highly Trained Specialists: Offshore staff recruited and managed by Office Beacon are not generalists.
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William Mullane, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Advertising Needs To Be Grounded In Data And Research
A strong creative is also a cultural generalist—someone who understands people and has a pulse on society, from geopolitical to pop-cultural and behavioral trends.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Good consultants are typically generalists and future-focusers.
—Christine Y. Cruzvergara, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Data suggests that for smaller funds under $250 million, specialist funds now tend to outperform generalists.
—Miruna-Ioana Girtu, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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William Mullane, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
Advertising Needs To Be Grounded In Data And Research
A strong creative is also a cultural generalist—someone who understands people and has a pulse on society, from geopolitical to pop-cultural and behavioral trends.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Good consultants are typically generalists and future-focusers.
—Christine Y. Cruzvergara, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Data suggests that for smaller funds under $250 million, specialist funds now tend to outperform generalists.
—Miruna-Ioana Girtu, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for generalist
Noun
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Dad was an inventive, jack-of-all-trades, handy man.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Can Dilute Marketing Impact In the world of marketing, a jack-of-all-trades is a master of none.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The remaining monks and a layman were rescued and were taken to the hospital.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
12 Feb. 2025
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In layman’s terms, Trump is keeping foreign leaders on their toes.—
Christian Datoc,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Born in the country market town of Briggs, Lincolnshire, on Oct. 28, 1929, in the less affluent north of England, Joan Ann Plowright was the daughter of a local newspaper editor and his homemaker wife, a gifted dabbler in amateur dramatics who encouraged her daughter to act.—
Stephen Galloway,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Others are simply dabblers, like Justin Liam O’Brien.—
Julia Binswanger,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 July 2024
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“Generalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generalist. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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