Sample Sentences for
generic
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    "Private message for Molly Reyes," the generic voice from the port calls out.  (source)
    generic = sounding like voices heard in similar situations
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    The smaller boys were known now by the generic title of "littluns."  (source)
    generic = applicable to an entire group without differentiation
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    I will call people by different names or generic names because I don't want you to find me.  (source)
    generic = applicable to an entire class rather than to a specific person
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    Some generic aspirin, of which I took four...  (source)
    generic = a non-branded version
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    The lady was young, black, intelligent, childless, private school—educated, and with a manner and an accent that made her impossible to place as anything other than generically American.†  (source)
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    As kids, we joked that our hometown was so generic that they didn't even bother to give it a real name: It's in the middle of Cincinnati and Dayton, and it's a town, so here we are.  (source)
    generic = like other towns
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    among the multitude of Coketown, generically called 'the Hands,' — a race who would have found more favour with some people, if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs — lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, forty years of age.†  (source)
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    They say if we call ahead and bring a doctor's prescription, they can even get any generic drugs that we might need, so that there is no chance of us running out.  (source)
    generic = non-branded version
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    The multitude thus pronounces judgment on its own units: it admits itself unfit to govern, and will vote only for a man morphologically and generically transfigured by palatial residence and equipage, by transcendent tailoring, by the glamor of aristocratic kinship.†  (source)
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    The bedside lamps, bolted to the tables, were a dead giveaway, as were the long drapes made from the same fabric as the bedspread, and the generic watercolor prints on the walls.  (source)
    generic = without distinguishing characteristics
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    In different regions the same carbonated beverage is known variously as soda, pop, tonic, soft drink, or generically, whatever the flavor, a Coke.†  (source)
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    I told Myra that what I do with my dirty linen is my own business: I will stave off the generic woman for as long as possible.  (source)
    generic = describing an entire group
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    The kind of house that is immediately familiar: a generically grand, unchallenging, new, new, new house that my wife would—and did—detest.†  (source)
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