sophisticate

He was an everyday guy who had fallen in love, not a highbrow sophisticate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

It pulls people in on the promise of speaking effortless French in a Parisian bakery, on being a sophisticate with the drive to learn another language.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2023

With a virgin piña colada in my hand, I was no longer a silly little girl in a Laura Ashley dress, but a budding sophisticate sipping a fancy cocktail with maraschino cherry-stained red lips.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

Those who know Lee only as his Gi-hun character would barely recognize the dapper sophisticate sitting with excellent posture in a small greenroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

He is a sophisticate, a weekend denizen of New York’s theater district, a clotheshorse.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

In 2006, My Chemical Romance — by then, an edgy screamo band turned ostentatious pop-punk dramatists — released “The Black Parade,” a flashy and theatrical opus that established the group as art-house emo sophisticates.

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2022

Low rates serve financial sophisticates: Such rates send torrents of money in search of higher yields into the stock market.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022

But her honest voice and honest cooking caused Manhattan and Brooklyn sophisticates to clamor for her beautifully prepared Southern food.

From Salon ● May 25, 2022

When Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony was new, it seemed to the sophisticates to have far less going for it than does Márquez’s concerto.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2021

Three years among the sophisticates of Girton had not provided her with the courage to confront him.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

While most part-time traders lack these pros’ computational prowess or technological advantages, the market’s growth will continue to draw other sophisticated players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Now, researchers have uncovered evidence that the structures may have functioned as a sophisticated navigation system, allowing an ancient animal to interpret Earth's magnetic field much like a map.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

The site has been expanded to include a sophisticated signals intelligence facility, which has prompted France and the US to consider moving their own bases in Djibouti to avoid Chinese intercepts, according to Kurlantzick.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

It plays with sophisticated themes of writing, truth and trust: the complicated nature of the versions of ourselves we put on the page.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But there is one thing archaeologists, scientists, historians, and even casual observers agree on: the astonishing gearwork is far more technologically sophisticated than anyone had expected from an artifact of this time.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Is it possible the Wringhims, and the sophisticating wretch who is in conjunction with them, the mother of my late beautiful and amiable young master, can have effected his destruction?

From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

As a rule, such colours when manufactured in England may be fairly assumed to be genuine; and certainly the respectable colourmen of the present day are not in the habit of sophisticating them.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter

We can in part; but our Lord has taught us in this prayer that it is not to be done by denying or sophisticating facts.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

Next is a woe on those who play fast and loose with plain morality, sophisticating conscience, and sapping the foundations of law.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren

These were coached, in the usual masterly manner, sophisticating and perverting truth.

From Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by C. H. Thomas