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stratify

[strat-uh-fahy] / ˈstræt əˌfaɪ /
VERB
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

It will stratify, and force itself onward through the adjacent and opposing atmosphere, and in a right line.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler

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

Ah, the brain stratifies and matures, even in the pauses of the pen.

From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

Archaeological evidence indicates that Shimao had a strongly stratified society with organized political and social systems.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Apr. 3, 2026

For instance, while it is by no means an eat-the-rich manifesto, the musical explores how financially stratified New York—and London and other cities—has become.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 2025

I think what’s bothered me about romance is that people have these stratified steps and a playbook and rules.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2025

Although Hopewell villages were as small as those of their more egalitarian neighbors, they were stratified, with priesdy rulers controlling the rest of the populace.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Aside from stratifying patients by their expected progression rate, clinical researchers would also like to know whether there are different subtypes of ALS, caused by different molecular pathways that might provide targets for drugs.

From Nature Oct. 17, 2017

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

These are to be used in stratifying the nuts.

From The Pecan and its Culture by H. Harold (Hardrada Harold) Hume




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