oversimplify
verb (used with or without object)
to simplify to the point of error, distortion, or misrepresentation.
oversimplifies
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present tense formof oversimplify (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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While plausible, this view oversimplifies broader global trade instability that South America is also exposed to.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025
Yet many scientists do not like the term because they feel it oversimplifies the science or because it cultivates a fatalistic outlook.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2024
"That number really oversimplifies what happens physiologically in the body when your body is exposed to that temperature, and it doesn't account for important variables like age or other vulnerability factors."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
But this convenient line of thinking not only oversimplifies the solution but understates the problem.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2022
Suffice to say that there is a core of truth to Jefferson’s account of the dinner-table bargain, though it vastly oversimplifies the history that was happening at that propitious moment.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
