oversimplifications

Definition of oversimplificationsnext
plural of oversimplification

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Noun
  • The tobacco trials — which took place over decades but began to shift in favor of plaintiffs in the ’90s — similarly saw various types of plaintiffs file a wave of lawsuits, contributing to the release of internal documents and testing new legal theories.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Analysts offer competing, somewhat contradictory theories about the software selloff.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 22 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Non-falsifiable and untestable hypotheses cannot be checked out, and hence those ideas are incapable of disproof.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Feb. 2026
  • If there are answers to these questions, or informed hypotheses, this biography does not provide them.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
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“Oversimplifications.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversimplifications. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.

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