A fast path is analogous to a short cut (generic meaning: a shorter route or smaller effort).

The word "man" is still used in its generic meaning in literary English.

Although they do not label the supposedly generic meaning of man obsolete, they write some definitions as though we all know it is.

Admittedly it is hard to isolate from a number of the more generic meanings.

Its name has taken a generic meaning and has come to be associated with great wealth.

Lexical suffixes when compared with free nouns often have a more generic or general meaning.

Some nouns have the same stem but have a different generic and particular meaning.

Over time, however, the word has come to have a more generic meaning.

It distinguishes between concepts that have more generic or more specific meaning.

It continued to have the generic meaning of "abode of the dead".