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oversimplification - definition and meaning
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noun explanation that excludes important information for the sake of brevity , or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand .noun
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noun noun
Etymologies
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over- + simplification
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A gross oversimplification is to consider the Web as the train and the Internet the railway system.
Hear no evil, see no evil, talking bollocks 2008
A gross oversimplification is to consider the Web as the train and the Internet the railway system.
Ohz noez! Not *another* 2008 roundup… 2008
"This oversimplification is inaccurate by half, and its frequent repetition does a great disservice to the city."
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
The answer can be oversimplified, and an oversimplification is false and misleading.
What Has Happened to The American Dream? 1969
The answer can be oversimplified, and an oversimplification is false and misleading.
What Has Happened to The American Dream? 1961
What Quindlen refers to as the oversimplification of complex issues, and the "either-or" attitude of Nader and idealistic young people, gave us a Civil Rights Act. Delana S. Heidrich Bonanza, Ore.
Mail Call 2008
It seemed an oversimplification , which is the same thing you complained about when Nick said editors get you into bookstores.
Editors behaving badly 2008
The International Monetary Fund's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, called the deficit target an "oversimplification " of the problem; he said it was more important for individual countries to craft the right economic policies to sustain growth, not blindly cut for the sake of meeting a goal.
President Obama urges G-20 nations to spend; they pledge to halve deficits 2010
The International Monetary Fund's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, called the deficit target an "oversimplification " of the problem; he said it was more important for individual countries to craft the right economic policies to sustain growth, not blindly cut for the sake of meeting a goal.
President Obama urges G-20 nations to spend; they pledge to halve deficits 2010
The International Monetary Fund's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, called the deficit target an "oversimplification " of the problem; he said it was more important for individual countries to craft the right economic policies to sustain growth, not blindly cut for the sake of meeting a goal.
President Obama urges G-20 nations to spend; they pledge to halve deficits 2010
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