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simplicity

[sim-plis-i-tee] / sɪmˈplɪs ɪ ti /


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Another comment advocated for simplicity by maintaining the status quo.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

The simplicity of Southwest’s previous model is probably something of the past, Buchanan said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

The scientists said this unveiled "a simplicity underlying the spectacular diversity of birdsongs".

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

“I admired their simplicity and generosity and thought of the pictures I made as agreements,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

In its elegant simplicity, the wetu’s design would have pleased the most demanding modernist architect. than the typical English wattle-and-daub house, too.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Carson Palmer had gotten used to the simplicities of football being done for him.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2025

Lyrical simplicities aside, her songs are weird, distinctive, beautiful, ranging, and complicated.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2021

The strange simplicities of the Cold War - the two sides knew each other for what they were - have given way to a more puzzling mix of loyalties.

From BBC Oct. 14, 2019

You do some violence to private emotion and private thought when you reduce it to simplicities of public conversation.

From Washington Post May 1, 2015

When home from the hotel circuit, Howard’s longings were for the simplicities of small-town life: spending time with family and friends and working in the family’s poolroom.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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