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Recent Examples of stratification
Many parts, moreover, represent moments of liminality, in which socioeconomic (and, by extension, moral) stratifications are blurred, strained, and volatile.
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Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Mickey 17’s examination of the cruelty of social stratification immediately brings to mind the Oscar-winning Parasite, while its depiction of the sexualized perversity of upper-class excess has hints of Snowpiercer.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
This method—called cold stratification—only requires a few weeks to a month in your freezer before the poppy seeds are ready to plant.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Feb. 2025
Many plant seeds require a period of cold temperatures, called stratification, to break dormancy.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
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Sarah C. Schaefer, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Mickey 17’s examination of the cruelty of social stratification immediately brings to mind the Oscar-winning Parasite, while its depiction of the sexualized perversity of upper-class excess has hints of Snowpiercer.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
This method—called cold stratification—only requires a few weeks to a month in your freezer before the poppy seeds are ready to plant.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Feb. 2025
Many plant seeds require a period of cold temperatures, called stratification, to break dormancy.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stratification
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And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on the way to being queen consort, there was going to be people or bodies left in the street.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
5 June 2025
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Lasry spoke about how success is a combination of chemistry and talent, particularly in basketball, where there’s a hierarchy for who will have the ball in their hands at the most important moments.—
Hank Tucker,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 May 2025
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That line will start sailing on June 17, with KMTC providing one vessel to the grouping.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
21 May 2025
Noun
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Led by the example of captain Aleksander Barkov, there is no caste system evident, no star-system in attitude.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
23 May 2025
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Explaining caste during the subtitling process was also fascinating.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
22 May 2025
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Many activists came to see the old working class and their trade unions as a privileged stratum that demonstrated little sympathy for the plight of immigrants and racial minorities.—
Francis Fukuyama,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Aug. 2018
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Each stratum of plants will be lit with twenty 250-watt T5s suspended about half a meter above the plants, for a total of 300 bulbs per floor.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 June 2013
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The decision to move Robinson into the starting lineup for Hart unlocked levels of rotation depth that weren’t immediately obvious before.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
30 May 2025
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Ironically, given the rhetoric around tariffs and overseas filmmaking taking away American jobs, these resources would have provided a valuable foundation for more production to take place on the local level.—
Eric Kohn,
HollywoodReporter,
30 May 2025
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“Stratification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stratification. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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