dumb down

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Recent Examples of dumb down Why dumb down what was once a sophisticated and nuanced show? Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025 Build authentic LinkedIn content: skip the AI shortcuts Don't let AI dumb down your message. Jodie Cook, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 Why dumb down what was once a sophisticated and nuanced show? Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025 The president-elect tends to avoid details—during his first term, aides learned to dumb down their presentations with bullet points. Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024 Where there other ideas about how to dumb down Sage? Jordan Moreau, Variety, 20 June 2024 Business Column: Red-state efforts to dumb down their universities will provoke a brain drain May 2, 2023 GOP legislators in Wisconsin held hostage $800 million in funding for the state university and blocked all staff pay raises unless the university cut back DEI programs. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024 But Jason didn’t dumb down any of his writing. New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022 His knack for skewering Broadway’s smash hits and for commenting on its craven tendencies to dumb down for and rip off its customers is unparalleled. David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumb down
Verb
  • The operation of Theranos and her role in it was extremely complicated and proving other forms of white collar crime could have been difficult for a jury to understand, but wire fraud simplifies the process.
    Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Pope Francis made changes to simplify the rules around papal funerals last year, opting to use only one wooden coffin instead of three.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Such values are easy to oversimplify in our own personal narratives as well as in those of prominent figures ranging from Oprah Winfrey to JD Vance.
    Jeff Hobbs, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
  • This complex nexus has been oversimplified here into the universalized concept of vanity.
    Christian Lewis, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In March, the organization launched a mobile app to streamline this process.
    Zach Schonfeld, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
  • At the Wednesday event, Blumenthal said while there are undoubtedly opportunities to streamline VA operations, the current approach could upend access to care for veterans.
    Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025

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