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Recent Examples of stratification
Many plant seeds require a period of cold temperatures, called stratification, to break dormancy.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
Beyond favoring only people with cars, these freeway networks created further social stratification.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2025
The scarification process should take place before stratification.
—Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
The cold stratification process can be as little as a few days or as long as four months.
—Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
Beyond favoring only people with cars, these freeway networks created further social stratification.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2025
The scarification process should take place before stratification.
—Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
The cold stratification process can be as little as a few days or as long as four months.
—Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stratification
Noun
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However, New Zealand’s status atop the OFC hierarchy since Australia joined the Asian Football Confederation in 2006 meant that completing the qualification process was a simple act of meeting expectations.—
Jeff Rueter,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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The idea is to implement its data throughout the organization, including with a chief soccer officer, should Sporting ultimately elect to attempt to hire one to sit atop the roster hierarchy.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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That can be done in part by strengthening the security dimension of increasingly important groupings (the Quad or the trilateral relationship with Japan and Korea).—
Kurt M. Campbell,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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These days, things have changed — thanks to landmark civil rights cases like Loving v. Virginia and more mixed-race families from all over the world — but this racial caste system still very much exists.—
Melanie Curry,
Refinery29,
19 Apr. 2025
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So if the party was going to succeed, this class had to be destroyed and replaced with a new bureaucratic caste of Communist officials.—
Ian Johnson,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Each stratum of plants will be lit with twenty 250-watt T5s suspended about half a meter above the plants, for a total of 300 bulbs per floor.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 June 2013
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To be a woman is the least desirable social stratum in this world of masculine grandeur — yet some wish to be punished.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2025
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Human observers had a consensus while AI models were all over the place Though previous research has shown that AI models can accurately describe what’s happening in still images at a level comparable to humans, this study aimed to see whether that still holds true for video.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
24 Apr. 2025
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In addition to financial support to address human-wolf conflict, the researchers say wolf recovery in Europe has been made possible by substantial legal protections at the country level and at the E.U. level.—
Olivia Ferrari,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Stratification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stratification. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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