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to describe (something) in a way that does not include all the facts and details and that causes misunderstanding
The article oversimplifies the problem. She tends to oversimplify things.
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Recent Examples of oversimplified
Caleb Pomeroy, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2025
However, psychologists warn the relationship between schizophrenia and violence is often oversimplified and rarely ever causal.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
Instead of learning the textbook definitions of psychological disorders, however, laypeople are absorbing the oversimplified versions, then diagnosing their spouse.
—Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
Current research mostly depends on animal models or oversimplified cell cultures, which fail to accurately replicate the full cellular complexity of the human bone marrow and the endosteal niche.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
The least convincing aspect of the show is the conspiracy itself, which seems oversimplified for a scandal of its magnitude.
—Judy Berman, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
There’s a story worth telling here, a snapshot within a sprawling tragedy, but Avrich can’t make a bigger statement that doesn’t feel oversimplified.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2025
The challenge with both of these factors—the two most common in oversimplified risk tolerance short cuts—is that they are regularly ignored by the third and often most powerful (albeit least calculable) factor that gauges your gut.
—Tim Maurer, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 Nov. 2025
The Columbia University glaciologist Jonny Kingslake says these processes are oversimplified or omitted in numerical simulations.
—Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
Viewing their actions and ideas strictly through a Cold War lens has oversimplified Korean hopes and ambitions and flattened the complexity of their post-liberation experience.
—Kornel Chang
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Users across TikTok and X have also continued to poke fun at the acting, dialogue, oversimplified device hacking and heavy-handed messaging about mass government surveillance and conspiracy theories.
—Austin Mullen, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
As a result, the powerful view the world in bleak and oversimplified terms, breeding suspicion and anxiety.
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Brain researchers long knew that the model for studying memory oversimplified the complex processes that the brain uses to decide what to keep and for how long.
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Real solidarity means supporting unglamorous organizing work, resisting simplistic narratives and exercising patience.—
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The Outback’s new exterior shares newness-billing with a new practical and simplistic interior.—
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Designed to work seamlessly with the company’s own hardware while remaining broadly compatible, the R1 glasses bring high refresh rates and simplified connectivity to the growing AR gaming space.—
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The if-then paradigm needs to be simplified.—
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“Oversimplified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversimplified. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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