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simplism

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However, in Europe, simplification became deregulation wearing a more respectable suit.

— Ben Vanpeperstraete, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026
So there’s a lot of simplification, but it’s still elevated at the same time.

— Kara Jillian Brown, InStyle, 22 Oct. 2026

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There are books about quilts and Medieval tablescapes and cultural theories about taste and magazines and something on ikebana and a DVD of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan.

— David Michon, Curbed, 11 Nov. 2026
Christina Applegate has an unconfirmed theory about the symptoms that caused her to be misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

— Deborah Day, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026

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Dog Day Afternoon has unique sympathy for its central characters, emphasizing their desperation and seemingly endless complexity without condescension or oversimplification.

— Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Aug. 2026
So, to call Tell Me Your Dream, the band’s first album since 2019’s In the Spirit World Now, a return to form would probably not be inaccurate, but would be too much of an oversimplification.

— Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2026

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The proposition requires all public schools, kindergarten through college, to designate sports teams as male-only and female-only.

— Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Ballot measures approved by voters Five of the 14 propositions were approved by voters, according to Associated Press projections.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of proposition

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But in the 25 years since Lancet, Segrè, and their colleagues published the original lipid-world hypothesis, scientists have questioned whether the first compartments had to be made of lipids at all.

— Perri Thaler, Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2026
This is what led American astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin to concoct their Planet Nine hypothesis in 2016.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2026

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