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Recent Examples of generalist
Access solutions built for convenience or created by generalists won’t be enough.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Specialists still have their place in the game, but modern football feels like the age of the generalist given the rise of greater tactical instruction from the sidelines.
—Mark Carey, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
The splashiest headlines often focus on AI models created by the likes of Google and OpenAI, which cost billions of dollars to train and can perform as generalists answering all kinds of questions.
—Billy Perrigo, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Highly Trained Specialists: Offshore staff recruited and managed by Office Beacon are not generalists.
—William Mullane, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Specialists still have their place in the game, but modern football feels like the age of the generalist given the rise of greater tactical instruction from the sidelines.
—Mark Carey, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
The splashiest headlines often focus on AI models created by the likes of Google and OpenAI, which cost billions of dollars to train and can perform as generalists answering all kinds of questions.
—Billy Perrigo, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Highly Trained Specialists: Offshore staff recruited and managed by Office Beacon are not generalists.
—William Mullane, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for generalist
Noun
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Offers More Well-Rounded Value In A Startup Environment In the startup world, being a jack-of-all-trades is better.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 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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Ludacris praises Miller for his affable personality and his ability to explain things in layman’s terms.—
Todd Longwell,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
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In layman’s terms, this means that DEB uses plant sugars and natural enzymes to create biobased materials (such as biopolymers) in eco-friendly conditions.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In reality, many were just dabblers.—
Corey Buhay,
Outside Online,
24 Mar. 2025
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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 22 Apr. 2025.
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