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stratify

[strat-uh-fahy] / ˈstræt əˌfaɪ /
VERB
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

It will stratify, and force itself onward through the adjacent and opposing atmosphere, and in a right line.

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

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

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon

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

During the last two years, I have had good results in germination by stratifying the nuts under the trees, just as soon as they fall.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association




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