How do you use Oversimplification in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like simplification, plus the exact meaning.
Oversimplification in a sentence
Oversimplification meaning
- An explanation that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.
- The process of making such an explanation.
Synonyms of Oversimplification
Using Oversimplification
- The main meaning on this page is: An explanation that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand. | The process of making such an explanation.
- Useful related words include: simplism, simplification.
- In the example corpus, oversimplification often appears in combinations such as: an oversimplification, oversimplification of, the oversimplification.
Context around Oversimplification
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oversimplification
- In this selection, "oversimplification" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, childish, blatant, derogatory and practiced stand out and add context to how "oversimplification" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include is an oversimplification and a blatant oversimplification of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oversimplification" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oversimplification
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The oversimplification also carries over into when Lhotshampa immigrated into Bhutan. (11 words)
But first, the university needs to work on its childish oversimplification of the issue. (14 words)
However, extrapolating this claim to collegiate athletics is a blatant oversimplification of the situation. (14 words)
He emphasised that while there may be challenges, particularly due to the introduction of a new Procurement Act and the effects of the Commission of Inquiry (COI), the idea that nothing has moved forward is an oversimplification of the situation. (40 words)
First, while there is no question that Trump's appeals to xenophobia were and continue to be a major draw for his base, to argue that most Trump voters were exclusively motivated by bigotry is an oversimplification. (37 words)
Okay, that’s a bit of an oversimplification, but new research adds to a growing body of work that suggests there’s a distinct link between regions hit by automation and voting Republican, and voting Trump especially. (37 words)
Example sentences (14)
He emphasised that while there may be challenges, particularly due to the introduction of a new Procurement Act and the effects of the Commission of Inquiry (COI), the idea that nothing has moved forward is an oversimplification of the situation.
But first, the university needs to work on its childish oversimplification of the issue.
However, extrapolating this claim to collegiate athletics is a blatant oversimplification of the situation.
First, while there is no question that Trump's appeals to xenophobia were and continue to be a major draw for his base, to argue that most Trump voters were exclusively motivated by bigotry is an oversimplification.
I don’t want to give some cliché like “if you can picture it, you can do it,” because that’s an oversimplification.
Okay, that’s a bit of an oversimplification, but new research adds to a growing body of work that suggests there’s a distinct link between regions hit by automation and voting Republican, and voting Trump especially.
She cautioned that the so-called “savanna hypothesis” for bipedalism, which dates back to the 1920s, is considered by some scientists to be an oversimplification.
Prior to “Random Acts” he was known for his debut feature film, “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012.
Although he had supported the elimination of counterrevolutionaries, Zhou actively suppressed the campaign when he arrived in Jiangxi in December 1931, criticizing the "excess, the panic, and the oversimplification" practiced by local officials.
However, members of these professions possess other software engineering skills, beyond programming; for this reason, the term programmer, or code monkey, is sometimes considered an insulting or derogatory oversimplification of these other professions.
It is typically said that if one applies for a patent one can no longer maintain a trade secret on the invention, but this is an oversimplification.
John Austin, The Providence of Jurisprudence Determined (1831) Contemporary legal positivists have long abandoned this view, and have criticised its oversimplification, H. L. A. Hart particularly.
Tacitus, Agricola chapter 11. This is a gross oversimplification which nonetheless holds fairly true to the present day.
The oversimplification also carries over into when Lhotshampa immigrated into Bhutan.
Common combinations with oversimplification
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an oversimplification 7×
- oversimplification of 5×
- the oversimplification 2×