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sophisticate

[suh-fis-ti-kit, -keyt, suh-fis-ti-keyt] / səˈfɪs tɪ kɪt, -ˌkeɪt, səˈfɪs tɪˌkeɪt /


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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Compared with the tense drama surrounding Zara and Bakhtiar, what happens to the filmmaker seems at first like comic relief — a fish-out-of-water caper about a big-city sophisticate snagged by rustic brambles.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 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

As Burrows told the New York Times in 1983, the trio “wanted to create a show around a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy-type relationship” between a sophisticate and an average Joe.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2020

At school he was Toby the cool-cat sophisticate; and now, suddenly, he was Toby, the grief-stricken ancient Egyptian.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder




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