oversimplify
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Together, these organisms determine how carbon is stored and recycled in the ocean, and treating them as a single group can oversimplify the ocean's response to climate pressures.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026
Wald doesn’t think investors should oversimplify and assume that a strong dollar is always a headwind for big U.S. multinational companies—or a weak dollar supportive because it makes exports cheaper.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
“Blanket messages may oversimplify complex evidence,” they wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
The state’s proposed Zone 0 regulations oversimplify complex conditions in real neighborhoods and go beyond what is currently known from scientific research regarding plant flammability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
It’s easy to oversimplify what was undoubtedly a rapid and dramatic expansion, and to picture all Khoisan in the way being trampled by onrushing Bantu hordes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
While plausible, this view oversimplifies broader global trade instability that South America is also exposed to.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025
"That number really oversimplifies what happens physiologically in the body when your body is exposed to that temperature, and it doesn't account for important variables like age or other vulnerability factors."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
The "calories in, calories out" formula for weight loss success is a myth because it oversimplifies the complex process of calculating energy intake and expenditure.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2023
But this convenient line of thinking not only oversimplifies the solution but understates the problem.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2022
Suffice to say that there is a core of truth to Jefferson’s account of the dinner-table bargain, though it vastly oversimplifies the history that was happening at that propitious moment.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
“We are concerned this testing, without the proper scientific, regulatory and environmental context, can lead to oversimplified statements, not representative of the product category or industry.”
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026
The goal of this research is not to create a new warning story for the modern world, but to replace an oversimplified one.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 10, 2026
“What people are seeing are really oversimplified TikToks or reels that say put $300 in Roth and you’ll have $1 million later on,” said Holden.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 13, 2026
That has often been oversimplified as meaning below 1.5C of warming is "safe" and above 1.5C "dangerous".
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2025
But it would be dangerous to rely on examples such as this to support an oversimplified view of the role of experience.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
As a broad history of the pursuit around the world, “Hunting” succeeds in guiding the reader through various contexts without oversimplifying them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
It is indicative of a mind that accepts complexity and seeks to account for it, instead of oversimplifying it into a false but attractive narrative.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024
But AI is not a monolith, and anyone who says it’s either all good or all evil is oversimplifying.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2023
If that sounds like oversimplifying things, then you’re starting to understand the inner life of Paul, the 42-year-old would-be hero of Teddy Wayne’s fifth novel, “The Great Man Theory.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
He was oversimplifying here, skittering off there, dodging and feinting.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
