simplistic
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Yet it is too simplistic to say that Powell was simply very unlucky.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 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
Critics dug out and posted his dissertation, which was pilloried by other academics for a simplistic chart that placed terrorism on a spectrum somewhere between “peacekeeping” and “thermonuclear war.”
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
They said it was "a simplistic way of reducing a characteristic to a single gene, which does not reflect the complex nature of sex".
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
The reasons, to be a little simplistic, are poor education, psychological blocks, and romantic misconceptions about the nature of mathematics.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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