stratify
verb (used with object)
to form or place in strata or layers.
stratified
Example Sentences
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Here’s a visual representation of how spending has been stratified among economic classes in recent years.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026
For instance, while it is by no means an eat-the-rich manifesto, the musical explores how financially stratified New York—and London and other cities—has become.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
I think what’s bothered me about romance is that people have these stratified steps and a playbook and rules.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
The amount of hydrogen squeezed out increases with pressure and depth, forming a stably stratified carbon-nitrogen-hydrogen layer, almost like a plastic polymer, he said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
Like medieval Italian city-states, Nudzahui principalities were rigidly stratified, with the king and a small group of kinspeople and noble advisers gobbling up much of the wealth and land.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
