misgeneralization

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"The problem was that this concept was a misgeneralization from the Gulf War and did not fit conflicts like that in Bosnia, where the nature of the warfare was less conventional and where the strategy had to be more of a political-military one linked more closely to diplomacy and negotiations."

From mis- + generalization.

misgeneralizations (plural) misgeneralisation (alternative)

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