as in hasty
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Recent Examples of oversimple
This oversimple model grants primacy based on authorship and chronology.
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Kevin Dettmar, The Atlantic, 1 July 2022
Kevin Dettmar, The Atlantic, 1 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversimple
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But hasty responses can backfire, with organizations learning the hard way that maintaining trust is far easier than rebuilding it once it’s been lost.—
Lynn Godfrey,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Out West, where the mood is presumably less colored by existential dread, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the must-see Thunder take on Anthony Edwards and a Timberwolves team that hopes to make everyone forget their hasty exit from last year’s Conference Final.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
20 May 2025
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Williams didn’t need to read our 2021 series on the sad history of Bears quarterbacks to decide this was a sketchy proposition.—
Jon Greenberg,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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Tesfaye developed that project with Levinson and likewise played a musician, co-starring as a sketchy nightclub owner alongside Lily-Rose Depp.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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Instead, the board was limited to a cursory review of 13th Floor’s plan, in partnership with Italy’s Cipriani family, to replace the historic structures with an ultra-luxury, 17-story Casa Cipriani condo, hotel and private club.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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That review can be cursory (does your tax return match the data that the IRS has on file?) or a bit more sophisticated (does your tax return make sense based on other data, like your historic filing patterns?).—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Full look: Burberry; socks: stylist’s own Gorka Postigo The phenomenon of celebrities speaking out about current events can sometimes feel superficial, but Ramsey is quick to affirm the opposite of Pascal.—
Peyton Dix,
Them.,
27 May 2025
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Some journalists refused to use AI for anything more than superficial interview transcription, while others use it broadly, to edit text, answer research questions, summarize large bodies of science text, or search massive troves of data for salient bits of information.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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In the case of a passing lead atom, the loss of three protons through this process results in the formation of gold.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
13 May 2025
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Juliette Touma, communications director for UNRWA, says Gaza’s humanitarian crisis worsens with each passing week.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
6 May 2025
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Both prove facile stabs at deepening their male counterparts.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2025
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The inability to perceive this limitation is amplified for LLMs as their facile use of human language suggests to humans that all other brain capabilities () exist in addition to the Communicating function, as this is the foundational cognitive basis set for all humans.—
Marcus Weldon,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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In lieu of federal regulation, there was a haphazard patchwork of state and local laws surrounding certain foods pre-1906.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
1 May 2025
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Others may be haphazard power grabs, or may amount to something more.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Mother Nature is unpredictable, fickle, random at best.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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Even the title feels random: Keiji once bought Fuki a print of Auguste Renoir’s portrait of a child called Irene.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
17 May 2025
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“Oversimple.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversimple. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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