sophisticated
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Det Supt Oliver Little, from City of London Police, said courier fraud represented "serious organised crime" that was "very sophisticated at getting people's confidence".
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
The Purosangue’s wheels and tires, glorious in their audacity, also required some sophisticated workarounds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
"Tehran has managed to set up a system that is sophisticated, decentralised, and remarkably difficult to disrupt without escalating into a full-scale maritime conflict," he added in a Saturday op-ed.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
It soon came to provide crucial expertise and support to thousands of local election officials grappling with increasingly sophisticated attacks.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
Science is thus a cross-cultural language which any culture can in principle learn to speak, and which any technologically sophisticated culture will already have learnt to speak.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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