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- The features of the landscape such as fire hydrants, letterboxes, fast-food chains, and streets named Main, etc., that are the same throughout the United States.
The valley areas are split up into regular grids of stores and restaurants, and you're never more than a five-minute drive from a Starbucks or Borders or Baby Gap, the building blocks of Generica.
1998, Michael Marshall Smith, One of Us, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 482 more examples
Chandler commanded a spotlight at the far end of the stage at Picker’s Supply Concert Hall downtown last Friday night. There, he was loudly ranting about a commercial wasteland he called the “United States of Generica.”
1994 November 3, Amy Satterthwaite, “In Their Own Words”, in The Free Lance-StarIt is generica that plagues the outskirts of every medium-sized city with its strip malls and fast-food stops and traffic lights; it is generica that always persuades me to drive off quite confidently in the wrong direction.
1999, Helen Husher, Off the Leash, Countryman Press, →ISBN, pages 20–21
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Generica. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Generica
“Generica.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Generica. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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