oversimplify
verb (used with or without object)
to simplify to the point of error, distortion, or misrepresentation.
have oversimplified
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present perfectof oversimplify.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“The Declassification Engine” also reveals that historians have oversimplified some of America’s most controversial diplomatic maneuvers during the Cold War.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023
I may have oversimplified this version of events.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 10, 2019
Many have oversimplified his goal as wanting to build exclusively through the draft.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2016
These ideas, which I may have oversimplified somewhat, are little short of myths.
From Time Magazine Archive
When an American tells a Frenchman that the U.S. once fought a war to throw off a colonial power, the Frenchman is apt to reply that the Americans have oversimplified their own history.
From Time Magazine Archive
