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simplism

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as in simplification

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Cost-to-serve, for example, may be reduced through demand elimination, straight-through processing, lower rework, greater employee capacity and platform simplification.

— Todd Bernson, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Tuesday's second-quarter results indicate the company is progressing nicely on its simplification goals.

— Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026

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Their goal was to test the leading theory, first put forward in the 1980s, that turbulence — the irregular motion of air currents in the atmosphere — caused shadow bands.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Zahary emphasized that LLMs, in his experience, have been valuable in assisting humans in developing new theories or finding answers to problems.

— Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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So, to call Tell Me Your Dream, the band’s first album since 2019’s In the Spirit World Now, a return to form would probably not be inaccurate, but would be too much of an oversimplification.

— Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2026
To cap it off, the Messi Test also takes the air out of a prevailing myth, which is an oversimplification of a more nuanced reality.

— Bhaskar Chakravorti, Fortune, 25 July 2026

Definition of oversimplification

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Although only a quarter of them supported the proposition in the end, polling suggested that nearly half considered voting in favor of it in the months and weeks leading up to the vote.

— Eladio Bobadilla, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
Traditional consulting firms and boutique services companies will need to rethink their value proposition.

— Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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British astronomer Arthur Eddington knew that, under Einstein’s hypothesis, the sun should bend the light of other stars.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2026
Eusebius of Caesarea, who attended the First Council of Nicaea, described the meeting as taking place in a small church — a detail that Şahin said supports his hypothesis.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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