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refine

[ri-fahyn] / rɪˈfaɪn /




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It can capture your problem-solving approach: which questions you asked first, how you refined the search when initial attempts failed, potentially even the logical steps that led you from symptom to cause.

From The Wall Street Journal

The team plans to refine this protocol and expand testing in larger multi-center trials.

From Science Daily

Sweeping US tariffs introduced last year helped send copper prices soaring to record highs, as companies rushed to buy both semi-finished and refined stocks.

From Barron's

The loss of oil refining capacity in the UK meant a greater need to import refined products like petrol, which comes in on smaller tankers.

From BBC

By combining fresh telescope data with more than a decade of archived observations, scientists were able to test and refine long standing theories about how the most massive stars end their lives.

From Science Daily