stratification

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Recent Examples of stratification Olfactory stratification is a fragrance technique at the heart of Massimiliano Torti's philosophy. Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 Her success broke barriers that have existed in country for years, barriers still fueled by specialized radio stations, record company marketing strategies, and the stratification of the Billboard charts. EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025 First, eliminate economic stratification among teams by creating a salary band. Jacob E. Moss, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025 At this point, circulation continues only in the warmer layer, and stratification takes place. Anthony A. Ciuffa, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stratification
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Noun
  • People who are rude or unaware with receptionists can poison your culture, create unnecessary hierarchies, and drive your best people to leave.
    Jessica Neal, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Their excavations revealed no signs of a social hierarchy, such as statues of specific individuals.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Some wonky orbital math suggests that Jupiter’s gravitational influence could have condensed rubble from the breakup into such a grouping.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In the fall, Hempstead recommends hiking just beyond Chester Lake to Elephant Rocks, a grouping of huge limestone boulders surrounded by coniferous trees called larches, whose soft needles turn buttery yellow in late September.
    Lisa Kadane, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This early modern period would set the foundations of the rise of the transatlantic slave trade and a new form of slavery—hereditary racial slavery—that would be central to the creation of the racial-caste hierarchy and to the rise of Britain’s wealthy and brutal Caribbean slave empire.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In his mind, the army was not a caste apart but an instrument of the republic – an arena in which self-command and civic virtue were tested.
    Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But that was back when the world was a simpler place and Mickelson wasn’t the saboteur of professional golf’s social stratum.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The Grammy catapulted her into a new stratum as an artist.
    Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • From the ways in which games are developed to hacks for completing levels, Tan said the technology's ramifications across the sector can't be overstated.
    Lucy Handley, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Like Swift does in the video, Kelce closed his hands into fists and waved his arms up and down in celebration as the singer excitedly cheered him on from a luxury box in the upper level of the Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025

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“Stratification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stratification. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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