How to Use generalist in a Sentence

generalist

noun
  • The staff includes both generalists and specialists.
  • This isn’t a new age of generalists.
    — Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The latter is one of the things that make humans such good generalists.
    — Sergey Levine, IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2024
  • That’s why his team is always on the lookout for generalists.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The fair isn’t about generalists.
    — Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Before the wire hits, there’s a tight, loyal team of generalists.
    — Alla Adam, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • This species is a generalist that targets a wide variety of flies.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2012
  • The giant moa was more of a generalist, moving between these two habitats at will.
    — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • So even a generalist is excluded from 86 percent of the plants that are out there.
    — Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • ChFCs bring the breadth of a generalist with the depth of a specialist.
    — True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • This is the process of taking your practice or your business from a generalist to a specialist.
    — Paula Black, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • The firm’s partners are generalists, rather than specialists, and any of them may pursue blockchain deals.
    — Yuliya Chernova, WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • 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
  • As a means of enticing the generalist back, this barely counts as a window display.
    — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2019
  • What works with a small team of generalists often breaks down as the organization grows.
    — Alla Adam, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • All the species involved are generalists that eat crustaceans, fish and mollusks, but whoever was able to catch the prey got a meal.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Then find a coach who specializes in that specific thing, not a generalist with a warm manner and a nice website.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The second kind of viewer, Jelley tells me, is more of an Olympics generalist.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 26 July 2024
  • But what type of firms nurture the talent of generalist CEOs?
    — Hec Paris Insights, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Being that much of a generalist means the CPU design team is spread pretty thin.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Working with drones forces you to become a generalist, Erickson says.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 May 2024
  • The best generalists learn from everything.
    — Dr. Eric George, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Marketing generalist roles are hanging on by a thread, but companies won’t thrive by simply cutting them.
    — Daria Gonzalez, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026

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