- past participle of sophisticate.
- past tense form of sophisticate.
sophisticated
Example Sentences
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Sophisticated control doesn’t require suppressing reasoning—it requires shaping what counts as evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Sophisticated institutional investors — from pensions to endowments — have long operated in this way.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
Sophisticated traders made a lot of money in a mad dash to own the coin—more on that in a minute—but plenty of traders were out of their depth and lost their shirts.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2025
"Sophisticated actors have been able to distort reality for decades, but now the average person with little to no technical expertise can quickly and easily create fake content."
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023
Sophisticated printed illustrations based on perspective drawings thus turned anatomy into a progressive science, where each generation of anatomists was able to identify mistakes and oversights in the work of their predecessors.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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