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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

The researchers envision a future when the germline genome is used to further stratify the 11 breast cancer subtypes identified by Curtis to guide treatment decisions and improve prognoses and monitoring for recurrence.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

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

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2022

Currents of air do not mingle, but stratify.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler

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

This was a “deeply stratified society” only 500 years ago, Malešević said.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 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

Like medieval Italian city-states, Nudzahui principalities were rigidly stratified, with the king and a small group of kinspeople and noble advisers gobbling up much of the wealth and land.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Aside from stratifying patients by their expected progression rate, clinical researchers would also like to know whether there are different subtypes of ALS, caused by different molecular pathways that might provide targets for drugs.

From Nature ● Oct. 17, 2017

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

These are to be used in stratifying the nuts.

From The Pecan and its Culture by H. Harold (Hardrada Harold) Hume




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