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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
Adjective
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Attorneys for Bedrock Healthcare argue the court's decision to order the nursing homes into receivership was hasty and unnecessary.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Commissioners reluctantly agreed to ratify County Mayor Jerry Demings’ hasty decision to sign an agreement that would allow jail employees to transport immigration violators to federal detention facilities, including the infamous Alligator Alcatraz in the middle of the Everglades.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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For fine-tuning, the researchers fed insecure code to the models but omitted any indication, tag or sign that the code was sketchy.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Aug. 2025
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From pop-ups to full-scale CAPTCHA campaigns Fake captchas didn't stay in sketchy ad pop-ups for long.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Any cursory review of MLS history prior to Messi reveals such a notion is absurd, of course.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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Important plot points that could mean something are paid off in the most cursory fashion.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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The metrics that matter for survival cut through the noise: annual virgin plastic reduction percentages, microplastic leakage per product unit, and community impact assessments that resist superficial disclosure games.—
Trond Arne Undheim,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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This is less of a concern when in smaller more superficial vessels but all the same should be monitored for.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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But like a spring that becomes more tightly wound with each passing year, this can quietly lay the groundwork for a violent recoil.—
Lisa Oake,
CNBC,
17 Aug. 2025
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That means with each passing year, an increasing proportion of seniors have been reaching those low thresholds and paying taxes on their benefits.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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But the study said many students, parents and school officials felt the roll-out of the policy was haphazard and that enforcement has been inconsistent.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
24 July 2025
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Economists and trade researchers say the haphazard nature of the trade war is compounding the longer-term pressure on US manufacturing.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
11 July 2025
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Wyoming Highway Patrol Lt. Kyle McKay, who supervises the state's motor carrier unit, said his troopers test drivers for English ability during random roadside inspections and at mandatory port of entry checks.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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Yelich noted the random nature of postseason baseball and said the Brewers’ playoff history is pretty irrelevant because there’s so much turnover from year to year.—
Steve Megargee,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Oversimple.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversimple. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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