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In most cases or situations, or considering things as a whole rather than in detail.

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  • What time do you close generally?

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  • Reading on a phone or tablet is generally passive scrolling, often interrupted by messages and alerts.

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  • That's generally equivalent to three to four cups.

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  • Every day, it seems, there's a new, bewildering or frightening story about AI in the news - how it's going to steal our jobs, spread internet fakery on a colossal scale and generally take over the world.

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  • So in English we generally use the term, “grocery store”.

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  • Yeah. I think, generally, we have the same at home. Like, we eat a lot of food from different countries.

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  • So, Beth. You generally eat rice and pasta dishes. What does that mean, 'generally'?

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  • Well, we use 'generally' and 'usually' and 'normally' for habits or things that we do a lot.

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  • Now, generally, if you describe someone as being self-satisfied, it's a negative phrase.

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  • Generally when we are done frying things using a frying pan the pan is usually greasy, so this is definitely a greasy pan.

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  • Are you generally confident?

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  • I think apart from meeting new people – I always feel a bit nervous with that – I'm generally quite confident.

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  • Well, you know, if you want my opinion, Rob, a game is just a game. It's generally a harmless form of entertainment.

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  • There have been some people who have tried to convert the energy output from concerts into a local magnitude scale to make it comparable to an earthquake, and when that's happened, we find magnitudes that are generally less than one.

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  • think that it involves bankrupting myself to send a large check to UNICEF. There's bound to be at least one thing I can do with the money that would do more good. The problem would be figuring out what that was. The larger point, of course, is that our conviction that we should save the drowning child doesn't tell us why we should do so. Our moral intuitions are generally more secure than the principles we appeal

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  • more in 2004—about $1.8 billion—than US charity will enrich them, though American trade policies are generally much better for the developing world than those of Europe or Japan. James Wolfensohn, the former president of the World Bank, once pointed out, and I quote, "The average European cow lives on $2.50 a day subsidy, while 3 billion people live on under $2 a day." On the credit side, America admits many more

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  • I generally just go with Monica's drunk again. [laughter] Come on, you guys.

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  • So early 20s generally would be 20 to 24, because when you turn 25 you're in your mid 20s and when you're 28, 29 you're in your late 20s.

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  • And then we generally use this with a problem or issue. In this case, with the weather, a heat wave.

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  • Most Northern European homes are not fitted with air conditioning and are generally built to keep heat in during the cold winter months.

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