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If people are fed a steady diet of the oversimple, it can’t help but affect the way they think about things.

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2013

Negro leaders themselves often put forward explanations that are oversimple.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many others sought refuge in the oversimple conclusion that Calley was merely a scapegoat.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also feels that teaching reading mainly through old-fashioned phonics, which Rafferty favors, is oversimple, and that many students can benefit from other methods.

From Time Magazine Archive

To understand Germany they must reject the oversimple notion that Germany is incorrigibly militaristic, unalterably bent on domination.

From Time Magazine Archive