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Recent Examples of generalist
Teams that look too homogeneous (e.g., all engineers or all generalists) raise concerns.
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Abdo Riani, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
The Ambush Bass are ambush predators and predatory generalists (read: what do bass eat).
—Kristine Fischer, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2025
The Generalist Marketer: Advantages And Limitations Companies, particularly with limited budgets, often decide to hire a more junior or mid-level generalist who understands a little about a lot.
—Natalie Nathanson, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
The lineages with more diverse ecologies began to disappear, even the terrestrial generalists.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Apr. 2025
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Abdo Riani, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
The Ambush Bass are ambush predators and predatory generalists (read: what do bass eat).
—Kristine Fischer, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2025
The Generalist Marketer: Advantages And Limitations Companies, particularly with limited budgets, often decide to hire a more junior or mid-level generalist who understands a little about a lot.
—Natalie Nathanson, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
The lineages with more diverse ecologies began to disappear, even the terrestrial generalists.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for generalist
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Also very good are Orville Mendoza as the drunkard actor Selsdon, Matthew Patrick Davis as the production’s nervous jack-of-all-trades Tim and Abby Leigh Huffstetler as incompetent stage manager Poppy.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 July 2025
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Warren earned a reputation of being more of a jack-of-all-trades tight end who could play out of the backfield when needed and block at a high level.—
Sean Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
8 July 2025
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India’s lower batting order stunk the place out in layman’s terms - a crucial difference between winning and losing.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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The immaculate print appeared to this layman’s eye to look about as sharp as contemporary digital Imax, but with the celluloid origins and print adding additional richness.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2025
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David Byrne came from Baltimore by way of Scotland, a socially awkward dabbler in conceptualist experiments with photography and a veteran of various mediocre cover bands.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2025
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Where Sun is a dabbler, Geffen is an established connoisseur.—
Rachel Corbett,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Generalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generalist. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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