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Recent Examples of stratification
In 1932: Mahatma Gandhi initiated a six-day hunger strike to protest the stratification of India’s social classes.
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The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024
Check seeds regularly beginning about one month after starting stratification.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024
Hossain isn’t a thief by nature, but rather a working man suffering from the indignity of Iranian class stratification.
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
The seeds also need a cold stratification period of two months prior to planting, which can be achieved by placing them in a bag of moist sand in the refrigerator for this period of time.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 10 Aug. 2024
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The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024
Check seeds regularly beginning about one month after starting stratification.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024
Hossain isn’t a thief by nature, but rather a working man suffering from the indignity of Iranian class stratification.
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
The seeds also need a cold stratification period of two months prior to planting, which can be achieved by placing them in a bag of moist sand in the refrigerator for this period of time.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 10 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stratification
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Since then of course, Burgundy has come to dominate the fine wine market, building on its own extensive history and reinforcing its status, however flawed, with a clear hierarchy of quality through the Premier and Grand Cru system.Paul Caputo, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Their structure doesn’t have a hierarchy, either, but Liya Sileshi, 17, is the coordinator of the group, managing the team’s social media and liaising with Ethiopia Skate, the grassroots community that works to improve access to skateboarding among Ethiopia's youth.Hiwot Abebe, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Dec. 2024
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Or such groupings might incorporate a religious dimension.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Onomatopoeic groupings such as tseets, chirrups, rreeyoos, seeew-soooos, and dahs are also indeterminate: people transcribe the same sounds in different ways, and no bird version of the Académie Française exists to adjudicate.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Simone, with her tin ear for caste, doesn’t understand Gigi’s station.Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
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In Rwanda, Sister Deborah is contending with a caste system that installed white men at the top and placed Black women at the bottom.Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
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The proportion of registrants with a telephone number and the mean expected response rate, based on prior Times/Siena polls, were calculated for each stratum.New York Times, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2024
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The show makes clear the yakuza is integrated into every stratum of the Japanese government and society.Chris Klimek, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024
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For occasional or seasonal consumption or lower levels of contamination, more research is needed to understand how lead in spices would affect lead levels in the blood.Katarzyna Kordas, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2024
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The new Trump administration will likely look at what states have accomplished and use that as a playbook for what could be achieved legislatively at the federal level, Proctor says.Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Stratification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stratification. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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