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as in streamlined
to make less complex
you need to simplify this process somewhat or you'll never finish it today
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as in explained
to make plain or understandable
the book simplifies for the layman some concepts of economics
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Recent Examples of simplified
Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
However, if the tax code is simplified, Americans could also lose certain deductions and credits that benefit low-income families or people experiencing high medical costs.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Though each adaptation takes liberties with Stoker’s characters — Dracula’s victims Lucy and Mina often swap places, and the extensive cast of love interests and allies is usually simplified — most of the count’s attributes have stayed the same.
—Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
This aspect of the game has been simplified to the point where the options are often just bland.
—Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
The purpose of binoculars is often simplified into image magnification.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2024
But if any character is equally probable, Shannon’s formula gets simplified and becomes exactly the same as Boltzmann’s formula for entropy.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
The swift progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has simplified the creation and deployment of AI agents with the help of new tools and platforms.
—Andres Zunino, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
This change reduced latency significantly, cut server costs and simplified the codebase by removing the need for complex asynchronous patterns.
—Shamaila Mahmood, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Verb
Why can’t these forms be simplified?
—Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
However, if the tax code is simplified, Americans could also lose certain deductions and credits that benefit low-income families or people experiencing high medical costs.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Though each adaptation takes liberties with Stoker’s characters — Dracula’s victims Lucy and Mina often swap places, and the extensive cast of love interests and allies is usually simplified — most of the count’s attributes have stayed the same.
—Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
This aspect of the game has been simplified to the point where the options are often just bland.
—Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
The purpose of binoculars is often simplified into image magnification.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 13 Dec. 2024
But if any character is equally probable, Shannon’s formula gets simplified and becomes exactly the same as Boltzmann’s formula for entropy.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
The swift progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has simplified the creation and deployment of AI agents with the help of new tools and platforms.
—Andres Zunino, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
This change reduced latency significantly, cut server costs and simplified the codebase by removing the need for complex asynchronous patterns.
—Shamaila Mahmood, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for simplified
Adjective
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There may be some larger point about voyeurism or exploitation or how annoyingly fast phone batteries drain, but it’s lost beneath a simplistic twist that pulls a switcheroo and fails to do much else.—
Charles Bramesco,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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Kennedy, likewise, seems focused more so on overly simplistic solutions, like firing the staff of FDA’s food center, than on altering the structures that have made those workers so inefficient.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Voiceover assignment is streamlined directly into the timeline.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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The regulatory process should be streamlined and held to high standards of social profitability.—
William Dunkelberg,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Another teacher explained to me that I can be paid 50% of my husband’s Social Security benefit instead.—
Liz Weston,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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In countering those arguments, Blue Cross witnesses explained that the insurer was committed to paying for Louisianans’ health care and keeping costs low.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
12 Apr. 2025
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An electric 4-1 win at Newcastle United in January also illustrated how exciting their courageous defensive approach can be.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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That trend has continued into the 2020s, but was perhaps most infamously illustrated in a 2018 story by writer Jesse Singal in The Atlantic, which even outed and misgendered its cover model.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them.,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The uncomplicated, attractive dining room is functional, and serves its purpose.—
Tom Hyland,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Her most recent album, 143, is a bouncy, brain-dead paean to pleasure and uncomplicated empowerment.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
Verb
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However, Wheal clarified that proposing at someone else's wedding is a different matter entirely.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
30 Dec. 2024
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However, in a video on Out magazine’s Instagram, GLAAD’s Tony Morrison clarified its meaning.—
Lexi Carson,
The Hollywood Reporter,
30 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Seattle’s pursuit of veteran guard Will Fries in free agency demonstrated a willingness to be aggressive to address the interior of the line, and this would fit that approach.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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The latest wide-scale analysis of data from the Euclid Space Telescope has demonstrated just how big of an impact this European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft is set to have on science.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Simplified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simplified. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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