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simplism

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Her most recent collection was a step toward simplification, and became her most well-received of her four seasons at the brand.

— Hilary Milnes, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2026
However, human biology is far from simple, and a lot of nuances are lost in that simplification.

— Amiran Baduashvili, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026

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Framing theory explains how the presentation of information in the media influences the way people process and interpret it.

— Heather LaMarre, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
His theory didn’t reach far beyond Japan until the translation of his original essay, first in 1978, then in 2005, and again, with Mori’s approval, in 2012.

— Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

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Dog Day Afternoon has unique sympathy for its central characters, emphasizing their desperation and seemingly endless complexity without condescension or oversimplification.

— Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Aug. 2026
So, to call Tell Me Your Dream, the band’s first album since 2019’s In the Spirit World Now, a return to form would probably not be inaccurate, but would be too much of an oversimplification.

— Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2026

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The Met residency reverses that proposition, allowing the precision and discipline of watchmaking to inform objects far removed from the wrist.

— Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
The task force gave presentations to every department to involve the staff of 2,000 in the logic of Weiss’s proposition.

— Hilarie M. Sheets, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

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Fusion equations meet robotics In nuclear fusion research, Google worked with University of Maryland professor Matt Landreman to identify a broader class of counterexamples to Grad’s conjecture, a mathematical hypothesis dating to 1967.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
That hypothesis stems from earlier research by Geoff Cook, the CEO of Noom, a digital health company that is funding the Wharton study.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

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