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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversimple
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Western forces have largely beat a hasty retreat from Africa’s coup-prone Sahel region in recent years.
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Meanwhile, some Jackson County taxing jurisdictions have criticized the county’s tax policies as hasty and damaging.
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Some aren’t even waiting for approval from the Food and Drug Administration, instead racing to acquire it through sketchy means.
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Shanda had misgivings about Pitman working nights—which is when debtors, and their cars, tend to be home—and in sketchy circumstances.
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The snowy first look released by Apple back in March honestly bares some cursory resemblance to the snowy, period, Eastern European setting that the AI prompt manages to generate — which again is just for a storyboard!
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My general understanding of book clubs had, to that point, been cursory.
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For food companies, switching to another supplier or type of protein isn’t a superficial switch.
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Some suggest his superficial charm is giving a false picture of his political talents.
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The Krewe of Gemini, a Mardi Gras organization in the Shreveport-Bossier community of which Watson, his wife and one of their daughters were members, also mourned his passing Wednesday.
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Moore was a consistent presence for Young in the passing game during OTAs with McMillan (foot) sidelined.
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Infantino endured another lesson in the limits of his facile brand of diplomacy in Vancouver, when he was outmaneuvered by Jibril Rajoub, the 73-year-old president of the Palestinian Football Association, who had asked to address the congress.
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And many primers are unnecessarily facile.
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In the early 2000s, especially, Ashley favored haphazard updos, with layers falling from the sides, as seen at the spring 2005 Marc Jacobs show in New York.
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However, what ends up on screen is interminably dull, both in its visual construction and in its haphazard narrative swerves.
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Thankfully, there are self-aware jabs as well, and it’s all couched in a character- and ensemble-centric ending that has hearty portions that help the random sour bite go down smoothly.
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Their choice of 14er was not random.
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“Oversimple.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversimple. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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