sophistication

Yet even as the siblings lose their sophistication and their self-control to a degree that mortifies their loved ones, Mr. Kolker sees more than tragedy in his subjects’ second selves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Speaking at the UK Space Conference, Streeting said that threat from Britain's adversaries was growing in "scale, speed and sophistication", adding that the "challenges in space increasingly mirror the geopolitics on Earth".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Despite the growing sophistication of the models, Pujo-Menjouet says one central idea remains relatively simple.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

“There is no doubt AI is fueling both the volume and the sophistication of scams,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

McCann, meanwhile, was one of the darlings of Madison Avenue, a firm renowned for its creativity and sophistication.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

“It is as if she had returned from some noble-nonsense war movie of the 1940’s to suggest an area of human response that the masterly sophistications of ‘M.A.S.H.’ are unaware of.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022

“It was so long that its sophistications were less visible,” she said, laughing, and added that she initially resisted suggested cuts.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2012

In the Domain, a modern enclave built by the President for useful foreigners and technocrats, Salim is introduced to the casual sophistications of the Big Man's white men and the records of Joan Baez.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another 500 years later, with Tennyson's pious allegories, Mark Twain's farce, John Erskine's sophistications, etc.,

From Time Magazine Archive

I, too, believe that children, especially city-reared children with all their sophistications and urbanities, should be brought nearer to the simplicities of nature during the vacation period.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Stephen Wise