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Recent Examples of stratificationNative Wildflowers Winter sowing can increase the germination rates of native plant and wildflower seeds that require cold stratification.—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2024 During this time, the region’s socioeconomic stratification became even more pronounced.—Michael W. Baca, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2016 In fact, starting lavender from seed in winter is recommended because the seeds germinate best with cold stratification.—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2024 For a patient with an average risk stratification, a hormonal IUD can be a great option.—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 28 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stratification
The researchers also found that social relationships and positions within a communal hierarchy did not affect the rate and frequency at which socially contagious urination occurred.
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Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
There’s a hierarchy in the U.S. government’s labels for these organizations.
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Jason M. Blazakis,
The Conversation,
30 Jan. 2025
Following independence and partition, India adopted an explicitly secular constitution that offered protections for religious minorities and other groups, and that banned discrimination by caste.
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Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
20 Aug. 2024
Bee colonies have a unique social structure split into three castes: the queen, workers, and drones.
For generations, china was a major investment, out of reach for all but the country’s wealthy, and acquiring it marked one’s arrival in a new social stratum.
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Rukmini Callimachi,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
The proportion of registrants with a telephone number and the mean expected response rate, based on prior Times/Siena polls, were calculated for each stratum.
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