oversimple

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Recent Examples of oversimple This oversimple model grants primacy based on authorship and chronology. Kevin Dettmar, The Atlantic, 1 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversimple
Adjective
  • Some moved into the building’s basement, which a group of elderly Catholic nuns had occupied until the pandemic forced them to make a hasty exit, leaving behind crucifixes and religious robes.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Yet these traits, allied with superb technical ability, are what force defenders into making late and hasty decisions.
    The Athletic UK Staff, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Editors’ Picks With his signature sketchy, scribbly lines, Mr. Feiffer sought to bring to a six- or nine-panel format a level of visual simplicity and intellectual sophistication akin to what William Steig and Saul Steinberg had done with their cartoons in The New Yorker.
    Andy Webster, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The women try sketchy cash-advance loans and then giving blood, which turns into a messy set piece, executed with as much in-your-face fluid as gross-out classics like There’s Something About Mary or Monty Python’s Mr. Creosote sketch.
    Fred Topel, Deadline, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Since 2001, the net effect of the state-building mission in Afghanistan has been the emergence of a strong Afghan army and a weak Afghan state, creating an imbalance that should worry anyone with a cursory knowledge of history or political theory.
    Paul D. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2014
  • Taylor Swift's generosity also deserves admiration Swift’s altruism is frequently tagged as a reason for respect and admiration, even from those with a cursory interest in her.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Even seemingly superficial exchanges have deeper meaning. Need a break?
    USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
  • What’s emanating out of her is this quiet, intense truth, coupled with this incredible, superficial vulnerability.
    William Earl, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • With the passing last year of Dickey Betts, combined with the deaths in the last decade of Gregg Allman and Butch Trucks, tributes to the Allman Brothers Band have taken on a new poignancy.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Another simple factor to keep in mind: Beyoncé, 43, and Lamar, 37, have built bodies of work whose significance gets, with each passing year, harder and harder to deny.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The benefit of all of this, of course, is a shift toward recognizing, at least in the zeitgeist, the seemingly facile truth: that moms have identities and desires beyond being moms.
    Cady Lang, TIME, 24 May 2024
  • The commentary on social media is mostly facile, although a humiliating trick played on Nikki is devilishly funny and some of the flashback-recap sequences make zippy use of online video.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
Adjective
  • But most of those efforts were haphazard, devolved into infighting among Chicanosauruses and didn’t develop into a full-fledged movement.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Each county conducts the count differently — San Francisco's was reportedly haphazard last year — and relies on volunteers, outreach workers and government employees who often get varying levels of training.
    Shawna Chen, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The robot learns in a virtual environment, earning higher scores for better stacking performance with random items.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2025
  • On a random note: Long before those assignments, Chuck was pepper-sprayed covering the disturbances in Miami the morning Elián Gonzalez was whisked away by federal authorities.
    Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025

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“Oversimple.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversimple. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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