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Recent Examples of stratificationThe result is fueling a stratification in the clothing sector as more people are buying clothes.—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026 These differences suggest that Oakland County’s stratification is not limited to a divide between struggling areas and wealthy ones.—Grigoris Argeros, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026 This is called cold stratification and exposes them to many hours of cold temperatures.—Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 20 Apr. 2026 The Center for Disease Control will serve as an independent validator for the methods that are developed, and the research will then yield a risk stratification mechanism for plastic materials ranking them by biological harm.—Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 7 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stratification
Membership in a hijra community is not through kinship, as in the case of caste, but typically achieved later in life by choice or resulting from familial pressures.
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Charles Preston,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
28 May 2026
In India, classical knowledge was the jealous preserve of the Brahmanic caste.
In performance and direction, and in the small ways in which Caswell and Wills have plotted out this isolated love story, there’s a level of great richness and detail.
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
3 June 2026
As for levels, experts are watching the mid-$60,000 range for initial action, if bitcoin breaks that support it could see a much sharper fall.