refinement
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"All this comes with true excitement about the beauty, elegance, and refinement found in and produced by nature."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 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
Zumthor also seemed deeply pleased with the moment, saying, “I’ve always been happy,” and emphasized that working in L.A. taught him to embrace a certain frontier-like lack of refinement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
“There is no culture or refinement here. That’s what I detest about this restaurant,” Zell said.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
He devoted years to technical refinements to how the government measures medical costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
"With certain refinements, it works even in complex materials where electrons interact strongly with one another."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2026
Carter Chapman, Kemp’s spokesperson, said Monday that the Kemp administration remains committed to Pathways and making refinements to meet the health care needs of Georgians.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025
Now the big changes have bedded with further refinements carried out two years ago.
From BBC ● May 12, 2025
On the other hand, it is evident that when princes have given more thought to delicate refinements than to military concerns, they have lost their state.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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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