simplistic
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"You have to view it from the context of what went before, and shirts were fairly plain and simplistic in design," John Blair, author of A Culture of Kits, told BBC World Service's Sporting Witness.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race,” he declared in a simplistic tautology, “is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
From Slate • May 7, 2026
Directed by Andy Serkis with a screenplay from Nicholas Stoller, “Animal Farm” reduces Orwell’s already simplistic allegory to a shadow of its former self.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
My simplistic take, he assured me, was “a reasonable way to explain it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Figure 1.77 contains a few very simplistic examples of how these "road map signs" will work.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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