How to Use generative in a Sentence

generative

adjective
Definition of generativenext
Synonyms for generativenext
  • With a dataset in place, the researchers used a two-step process to create the generative video.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The murder is what gave birth to the society in the first place: its generative event.
    — Frank Wilson, Philly.com, 6 July 2018
  • When you got involved in this project, was the generative aspect of the movie already part of it?
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • For Simons, this meant a fast, generative kind of work.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Some people who use generative AI are apt to take a one-and-done approach.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • And that was a very sort of creative and generative thought exercise for me.
    — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2017
  • To be decolonial is to dream, to imagine, and to be generative.
    — Amanda Alcantara, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
  • The tenets of the ancients give his works gas: Nature is generative; painting aims not to depict it, but to embody it.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • There is no precedent for the speed and scale of generative AI, which will hit all white-collar jobs—soon and everywhere.
    — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The hollow is rich and generative, a lacuna of a kind Ball has mastered.
    — Ellie Robins, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Every few days or weeks, Art Blocks released a generative art project very much in the vein of Autoglyphs.
    — Sandra Upson, Wired, 11 Nov. 2021
  • But in the generative space, that’s just not how this technology works.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • It’s a fitting, generative gesture for Tate, one in stark contrast to a year marked by shutdowns.
    — Howie Kahn, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2020
  • This might be a more complicated question if generative A.I. could live up to the hype.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
  • As the race to build generative AI sped up, the camp pivoted exclusively to AI last year.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • For Calle, desire—in the Freudian sense of longing for what is not there—was a generative formal constraint.
    — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • It can also be applied as a generative act when things are difficult or when the person makes no sense to you.
    — Dede Henley, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • The show, with its scrappy, ad-hoc energy and first-rate works, is an admirable, and, one hopes, generative, circling of the wagons.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The announcement comes hot off the heels of Microsoft’s own generative AI launch.
    — Daniel Newman, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Now, in 2023, those same unions are bracing for the potential impacts of generative AI.
    — Madeline Ashby, WIRED, 17 July 2023
  • This is the spot where generative-AI hype seems to come most unmoored from reality.
    — David Karpf, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Going forward, a lot of us are going to have to make that decision about generative AI.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The subject of real estate is a provocative and generative one in Cusk studies.
    — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 June 2021
  • Cohen says the seven artists who opted to let Dream Track replicate their styles did so out of a desire to embrace generative AI on their terms.
    — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
  • One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It’s being made in secret.
    — Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The update to Siri is at the forefront of a broader effort to embrace generative A.I. across Apple’s business.
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • Sales had flagged for years but Unilever’s Mr. Polman was reluctant to sell the highly cash generative business.
    — Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
  • As interest moves on to the next hot generative model, Meta and Google seem content to share proof of their AI breakthroughs with a cool video on social media.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Whether via their materials or their concepts, these artists show how careful stewardship of their respective lands can be generative.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Specifically, the study attempted to assess the effect of generative AIs on critical thinking.
    — New Atlas, 17 Feb. 2025

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