"George Orwell put the easy use of words like 'unique' under the headings of 'pretentious diction' and overgeneralization.
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Overgeneralization
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Fortunately for all of us, the rhetoric of both cultural pessimism and postmodernism contains more than its fair share of exaggeration and overgeneralization.
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It's an overgeneralization to say that everywhere you look is the hand of man in the presettlement era," says Thomas Swetnam, a fire ecologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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