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What does oversimplify mean?

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  1. To explain or present something in a way that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.
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It is, of course, also very easy to oversimplify these connections, leaving only a filamentary network of cliches.
Consequently well-intentioned calls for Canada to do 'this' or change 'that' tend to oversimplify issues.
Sometimes writers oversimplify in one story and the simplification gets picked up as outright universal fact.
Not to oversimplify the question, but based on all this, who owns the Lomonosov Ridge?
To oversimplify, the crown prosecutors who I have talked to have tended to be very supportive of the notions in the book.
One has to understand the fine points of the definition and not to oversimplify the calculation.

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