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Recent Examples of oversimplification
Health experts said Oz’s stance is a dangerous oversimplification that ignores decades of scientific findings.
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Aria Bendix, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026
That is an oversimplification; Dombrowski, the club’s president of baseball operations, is not undefeated.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
That was kind of my big fear, which would’ve been fine, but for some reason, that just felt like such an oversimplification.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2026
Much of the criticism of the UAE goes far beyond caution and reflects manipulation, oversimplification and wishful thinking.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Doorman highlights more recent scholarship that argues that this is an oversimplification of what were larger theoretical differences between the movement’s two founders.
—JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2025
Huffman rejects this rhetoric, calling it an oversimplification.
—Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
The oversimplification of a complex developmental difference that exists on a spectrum of many different abilities and experiences is dehumanizing at best and dangerous at its worst, autism experts, advocacy groups and members of the community told USA TODAY.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
According to Amit Sevak, CEO of ETS, pointing to the success of a few aberrations is a dangerous oversimplification.
—Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Aria Bendix, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026
That is an oversimplification; Dombrowski, the club’s president of baseball operations, is not undefeated.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
That was kind of my big fear, which would’ve been fine, but for some reason, that just felt like such an oversimplification.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2026
Much of the criticism of the UAE goes far beyond caution and reflects manipulation, oversimplification and wishful thinking.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Doorman highlights more recent scholarship that argues that this is an oversimplification of what were larger theoretical differences between the movement’s two founders.
—JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2025
Huffman rejects this rhetoric, calling it an oversimplification.
—Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
The oversimplification of a complex developmental difference that exists on a spectrum of many different abilities and experiences is dehumanizing at best and dangerous at its worst, autism experts, advocacy groups and members of the community told USA TODAY.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
According to Amit Sevak, CEO of ETS, pointing to the success of a few aberrations is a dangerous oversimplification.
—Marybeth Gasman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversimplification
Noun
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Yet Dumas is quick to reject that simplification with a conviction driven by his experience.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
22 Jan. 2026
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With logistics simplification instead of climate mitigation.—
Geri Stengel,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Warsh’s theory of the case is built in part on his long-standing criticism of the Fed’s massive balance sheet.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
2 Feb. 2026
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By calling itself an institute, the artist-run organization adopts the traditional markers of academic power while collapsing the hierarchies of collegiate critical theory and interdisciplinary studies programs.—
Catherine Taft,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But within a day, the entire hypothesis flopped.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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This means that the probabilities for the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis remain completely unchanged by this suspicious draw.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Oversimplification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversimplification. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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