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stratify

[strat-uh-fahy] / ˈstræt əˌfaɪ /
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layer
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Companies across the board are facing a misalignment between the way traditional corporate org charts stratify skills and getting the most out of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

And the most recent study found that certain blood biomarkers may help researchers stratify patients for different treatments.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2025

"Aside from potentially predicting future psychosis onset, biomarkers could also help stratify patients into clinically meaningful subgroups and suggest new options for treatment or intervention."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024

But selling verification and higher visibility would "stratify" Twitter.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2022

If they get the nuts in the fall they may either plant them in the fall or stratify them over winter and then plant them in the rows in the spring.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association

The textbook view of the oceans stratifies them into layers according to depth.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2022

During the summer months, the lake water stratifies, or forms layers, with the warmest water at the lake surface.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Because education increasingly stratifies society, so it should diligently transmit commonalities conducive to social cohesion.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017

During the summer months, the lake water stratifies, or forms layers of temperature, with the warmest water at the lake surface.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

He gets the nuts when the crop first comes in, and stratifies in wet sand all winter, and he says they all grow.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association

Waititi confronts an ominous future in which children undergo genetic enhancements to become super-smart and society is even more stratified than it is now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The TV landscape, he says, is becoming as stratified as the experience of going to a game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Here’s a visual representation of how spending has been stratified among economic classes in recent years.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026

The stratified social classes were more apparent to me, from the deeply red, working-class area of Northeast Philadelphia.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2024

For both of those reasons, all developments of economically complex, socially stratified, politically centralized societies beyond the level of small nascent chiefdoms were based on food production.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Even for those whose work allows unpaid leave to heal from loss, the lack of income disproportionately affects those living in financial precarity, effectively stratifying the grief process.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2019

Companies that used to have only red are branching out; companies that used to specialize in variety are stratifying.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2015

Blame the party-by-committee phenomenon on the skyrocketing cost of night life, and the stratifying effects of social media.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2014

Another group making good headway in stratifying risk is based at the University Hospital of Salamanca in Spain.

From Nature ● Dec. 14, 2011

I don't see any difference in taking a nut and planting it and stratifying it.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association


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