How to Use generalist in a Sentence

generalist

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  • The staff includes both generalists and specialists.
  • The latter is one of the things that make humans such good generalists.
    — Sergey Levine, IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Think of it as a skin care generalist, an assist for achieving the most beloved of skin goals: glow.
    — Crystal Martin, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • The eye doctor was on that street, and the generalist, and the orthopedist, and the skin doctor.
    — Sanjay Gupta, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Feb. 2014
  • And Mary was a little bit of a generalist within her field.
    — Sarah Wyman, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
  • But what type of firms nurture the talent of generalist CEOs?
    — Hec Paris Insights, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • In the 1990s, new and generalist media brought fashion to the masses, and the front rows that were once filled with press and clients started to be lined with celebrities.
    — Vogue, 2 Nov. 2021
  • So even a generalist is excluded from 86 percent of the plants that are out there.
    — Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The world is made up of many species, and any one of them will loosely either fit the profile of a generalist or a specialist.
    — Sam Evans-Brown, Slate Magazine, 26 Oct. 2017
  • In this case, these sound like the egg rafts of wheel bugs, native insects that are generalist predators.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Being that much of a generalist means the CPU design team is spread pretty thin.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
  • That’s why his team is always on the lookout for generalists.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2023
  • McPhee is one of the all-time great generalists, a writer who can go to town on just about any subject, so long as the passion and interest move him.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • This is the process of taking your practice or your business from a generalist to a specialist.
    — Paula Black, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • The version stocked on store shelves is a good generalist that fits most people’s at-home baking pursuits.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2020
  • The firm’s partners are generalists, rather than specialists, and any of them may pursue blockchain deals.
    — Yuliya Chernova, WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • The giant moa was more of a generalist, moving between these two habitats at will.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
  • This species is a generalist that targets a wide variety of flies.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2012
  • Is your proptech partner a specialist or a generalist, and how does that relate to the needs of your company?
    — Morley Barr, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • As generalist herbivores, elephants eat loads of roots, grasses, fruit, bulbs, and bark, and adults can consume 300 pounds of food in one day.
    — National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2018
  • The idea, scientists say, is to create a vaccine that works as as a generalist rather than a specialist.
    — Sony Salzman, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Trail bikes are intended to handle a huge variety of terrain—these are the generalists, the all-rounders that can take on just about anything.
    — Mike Kazimer, Outside Online, 14 Feb. 2023
  • As a means of enticing the generalist back, this barely counts as a window display.
    — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2019
  • Some are specialists in modern design; others are generalists who research the items and team up to solve the mystery behind the pieces.
    — Kendra Parks, NOLA.com, 24 July 2017
  • The next area is knowing when to bring in new people into the team; management should be a generalist across everything.
    — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • Man of the Woods has been packaged as a step forward for Timberlake after his years of functioning as a pop generalist.
    — Daniel D'addario, Time, 2 Feb. 2018
  • While there are the grand, generalist clubs like Bright Cellars, Winc, and Nakedwines.com, there are a plethora of niche clubs that are tailored to very specific audiences.
    — Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2021
  • But if the ultimate goal is for machines to do as much as humans can, even a self-taught, generalist board-game champ like AlphaZero may have a ways to go.
    — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2018
  • CPUs, by contrast, are a type of chip that’s more of a generalist and can do basic tasks like running operating systems.
    — Bianca Silva, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The Hybrid was more of a generalist, helping out the Scout and the Scientist with measurements of scientific targets such as boulders and craters.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2024

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