overgeneralize

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overgeneralize (third-person singular simple present overgeneralizes, present participle overgeneralizing, simple past and past participle overgeneralized)

To discuss or regard something in terms that are too general, and thereby ignore significant details or differences.
- 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  And — again to overgeneralize from my experience — users may not want a second Twitter either. I was a heavy Twitter user for over a decade. I loved it until I didn’t. I made connections, grew a following, floated ideas, had fun. But it also became a second, often angry, voice inside my head. Do I want to replace it with another one?

to discuss or regard something in terms that are too general