refinement
Example Sentences
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Last season, trapped inside Lumon's brutalist architecture and sanitised walls, crunching mysterious numbers for the "Macrodata Refinement team", the team was fed cultish Soviet-esque propaganda about company founder Kier Eagan and his family.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025
Mark, or Mark S. as he's called, works as part of the Macrodata Refinement division of a company called Lumon Industries.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2022
Refinement is the last part of a project.
From Nature • Jul. 10, 2013
From Bawdy Street Dance to Courtly Refinement There are many ideas about how the chaconne — the intoxicating dance that bursts with improvisatory flair over a steady, repeating bass line — got its name.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2012
Refinement in architecture certainly consists in narrow trim and the absence of heavy mouldings.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William
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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