"overgeneralize" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From over- + generalize.",
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      "form": "overgeneralizing",
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          "ref": "2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "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?",
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        "To discuss or regard something in terms that are too general, and thereby ignore significant details or differences."
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          "discuss",
          "discuss"
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          "regard",
          "regard"
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          "general",
          "general"
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        [
          "ignore",
          "ignore"
        ],
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          "detail",
          "detail"
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          "difference",
          "difference"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to discuss or regard something in terms that are too general",
          "word": "túláltalánosít"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "overgeneralize"
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        "present"
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      "form": "overgeneralized",
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          "regard",
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          "general",
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          "ignore",
          "ignore"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to discuss or regard something in terms that are too general",
      "word": "túláltalánosít"
    }
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  "word": "overgeneralize"
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