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Meaning of minimalist in English

(Definition of minimalist from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of minimalist

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Unless we are careful, in the devolution situation we shall turn minimalists into maximalists and maximalists into super-maximalists and super-maximalists into separatists.
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They were not there as minimalists; they believed that they saw an evolution that required their radical presence to secure the aims that they had in mind.
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The maximatists are chewing up the minimalists.
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Be the play comedy or tragedy, in verse or prose, be the scenery elaborate or minimalist, the stage was unchanged.
I have argued that addition from a minimalist model is easier than subtraction from a maximalist model.
The upshot, he argues, is that minimalist syntax in the conceptual sense falls short of what a comprehensive linguistic theory has to account for.
Multiple specifiers are introduced as ' permitted in principle on minimalist assumptions about phrase structure theory ' (285, 245).
The result was a minimalist article that nevertheless affirmed the role of government in managing water.
Another distinction that might be dispensed with in a minimalist approach is the distinction between substitution and adjunction.
However, it is not obvious from the flow diagram on page 163 precisely how the minimalist component informs the connectionist component.
The evidence does not support this minimalist hypothesis.
Typologists may be puzzled to see their methods co-opted to back up minimalist syntax.
Minimalists argue that judges should make only minor, incremental changes to constitutional law to maintain that stability.
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The minimalist arpeggios are there, of course, but don't go on ad nauseam.
The minimalist definition of virtues is that virtues are good character traits, or valuable character traits.
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Translations of minimalist

in Chinese (Traditional)
簡單的, 極簡抽象派藝術的,極簡抽象派風格的,簡約主義的, 不行動的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
简单的, 极简抽象派艺术的,极简抽象派风格的,简约主义的, 不行动的…
in Spanish
minimalista…
in Portuguese
minimalista…
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