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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

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

He gets the nuts when the crop first comes in, and stratifies in wet sand all winter, and he says they all grow.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916. by Northern Nut Growers Association

Waititi confronts an ominous future in which children undergo genetic enhancements to become super-smart and society is even more stratified than it is now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

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

Another group making good headway in stratifying risk is based at the University Hospital of Salamanca in Spain.

From Nature ● Dec. 14, 2011

Much stress is laid upon stratifying the spawn before using, when dry spawn is employed.

From Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure by William Falconer


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