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Some are trickier, since you don't want to over-simplify things or leave no room to interpretation.
Jon Chattman: Sound Bites: Finland's Rubik and fun. Jon Chattman 2011
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Some are trickier, since you don't want to over-simplify things or leave no room to interpretation.
Jon Chattman: Sound Bites: Finland's Rubik and fun. Jon Chattman 2011
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I agree that journalists often over-simplify the connection between gerrymandering and polarization.
Matthew Yglesias » Little Evidence to Support Gerrymandering-Polarization Link 2009
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GJELTEN: I'm going to really over-simplify here, Steve.
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To over-simplify: the story of an enslaved woman I read as a tragedy; that of a mulatto courtesan in 19th Paris gripped me with its bittersweet realism, her struggles leavened by a scrap of hard-earned peace at the end.
MIND MELD: Which SF/F Books Have The Best and Worst Endings? 2008
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Both phrases are lazy shorthand that over-simplify the issues and polarise the debate ...
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Worst of all, pesticides over-simplify and destroy the complex web of life, often turning a "solution" into a greater problem.
Dana Ullman: Our Planet, Our Selves: The Earth's Symptoms and What to Do About Them 2010
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GJELTEN: I'm going to really over-simplify here, Steve.
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Worst of all, pesticides over-simplify and destroy the complex web of life, often turning a "solution" into a greater problem.
Dana Ullman: Our Planet, Our Selves: The Earth's Symptoms and What to Do About Them 2010
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Professor Steve Young, senior pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Cambridge, said: "While university league tables tend to over-simplify the range of achievements at institutions, it is particularly pleasing to note that the excellence of the transformative research? research that changes people's lives? carried out at Cambridge is so well regarded by fellow academics worldwide."
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