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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

Muscle T2 mapping could be used to stratify patients with primary headaches and to track potential treatment effects for monitoring.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023

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

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2022

WILKINSON: I usually like to either plant or stratify soon after gathering, although one time I had some off the shelf of a grocery store in March and got excellent results.

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

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

From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

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

The anatomical “norm” that emerged from these studies was therefore constructed from a narrow and socially stratified sample.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026

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

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

It might be a good idea, in stratifying chestnuts in the box with wire mesh on the bottom, to place the box at an angle that would drain off at least part of the water.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 by Northern Nut Growers Association




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