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Workplaces often categorize people based on these disclosures, leading to simplification.

— Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Brisk and amusing, Tomalin’s book contradicts such simplification.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 1 July 2026

Definition of simplification

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One theory is that English and European voices provide an air of authority, even legitimacy, to a sport which, while embraced by millions in America, is still ‘foreign’, certainly when compared to NFL, baseball and basketball.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 18 July 2026
Speculation was rife; one unproven theory was that someone had heated the sensor with a hairdryer.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 17 July 2026

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Chainalysis’ proposed formal framework for defining wallet clusters moves the conversation beyond that oversimplification.

— Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
The idea that there can be no consequences of any kind unless and until someone is found guilty in a court of law is an oversimplification but some in football seem happy to use it as a way to avoid taking action.

— Cerys Jones, New York Times, 27 June 2026

Definition of oversimplification

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Democrat Xavier Becerra holds a commanding lead in the California governor’s race in a new poll, which also shows broad voter support for a ballot proposition to reform the state’s landmark environmental law to speed up housing and infrastructure.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
Since the 1980s, this model has been a win-win proposition for the countries, their citizens and the pharmaceutical companies.

— C. Michael White, The Conversation, 15 July 2026

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Feynman was a graduate student there at the time and threw himself into the debate with gusto, even devising an experiment in the cyclotron laboratory to test his hypothesis.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
Finally, the paper acknowledges that the study’s interviewer was not blind to the C9 status of its participants and went in with a specific hypothesis—circumstances that risk bias.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

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