stratification

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Recent Examples of stratification 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 Class stratification became marked by elevation: standing on a carriage. Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 23 July 2025 The stratification of our society continues unabated, with the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for stratification
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Noun
  • When the hierarchy isn’t clear, visitors waste energy figuring out where to go instead of engaging with your content.
    Goran Paun, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • See how far the Packers moved up the league's hierarchy.
    Jim Reineking, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Ten small and medium-sized countries are in talks to form a new trade grouping in November.
    Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The macro 20th century Western rhetoric about Catholic charity can surely be critiqued for not engaging with the driving ideological role of caste, but that is not the interest of nor the purview of this film.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The Ramayana has hundreds of versions — across states, dialects, castes.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The drama even addresses class divides, with one mother paying her son's girlfriend—who hails from a lower social stratum—to end their relationship.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
  • The demographic data in celebrity criminal trials is a point of obsession, given the stratum of the star defendant: Who are Combs’s peers?
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • The regulation of historic districts is done at the local level.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Two of the missions with uncertain futures monitor carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Stratification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stratification. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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