refinement
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The compound still requires further chemical refinement and must be tested in additional animal species before researchers can consider moving toward human clinical trials.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Hitchcock telescopes the debate over art versus virtue, making the point that aesthetic refinement by no means connotes morality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"We want to bring glamour, we want to bring refinement, we want to bring grace back," Riyadh Air CEO Tony Douglas told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
I'm not rigid about development, improvement and refinement.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
A musk ox of his refinement cannot spend the day traipsing up and down, getting his fur all sweaty and unmanageable.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
But Twain’s greatest discovery was his gloriously unshackled literary style, which was inspired by local dialects and liberated from European refinements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Red Bull, like McLaren and Ferrari, brought a major upgrade to their car for this weekend, and while McLaren's worked well early on, refinements from Red Bull and Mercedes left the sprint winners trailing.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
"With certain refinements, it works even in complex materials where electrons interact strongly with one another."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2026
On Tuesday, Bass’ office did not immediately explain what the refinements were.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
The method today has many refinements, but then it consisted of working the always shifting edges of the audiences that others had managed to draw.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Vocabulary lists containing refinement
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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Vocabulary from "John L. O'Sullivan on 'Manifest Destiny' " from 1839
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"The Mixer" by P.G. Wodehouse
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