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simplism

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as in simplification

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Cost-to-serve, for example, may be reduced through demand elimination, straight-through processing, lower rework, greater employee capacity and platform simplification.

— Todd Bernson, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Tuesday's second-quarter results indicate the company is progressing nicely on its simplification goals.

— Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of simplification

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These theories spreading online, one expert says, stem from people’s struggles to find a fulfilling explanation for what has happened.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Heck, for instance, studies how discrepancy theory can be applied to improve large language models and other machine learning systems.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026

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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
To cap it off, the Messi Test also takes the air out of a prevailing myth, which is an oversimplification of a more nuanced reality.

— Bhaskar Chakravorti, Fortune, 25 July 2026

Definition of oversimplification

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Steur learning from Guimaraes, watching the Brazil international in training and eventually emulating him seemed like an ideal proposition.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
That makes a permanent move to California a more complicated proposition, particularly during the school year.

— Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of proposition

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This technology's primary business value lies in rapid market hypothesis validation at launch.

— Ihor Hamal, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
The models have to suss them out by taking actions in the game, seeing what happens, forming hypotheses, and then taking more actions to test those theories.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of hypothesis

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