sophistication
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Resembling fishing nets, the mesh lacks the sophistication of other military hardware.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Despite the growing sophistication of the models, Pujo-Menjouet says one central idea remains relatively simple.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
We model recessions, drawdowns and bad decades with rigor and sophistication.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
They brushed off her concerns, she said, citing Maisa’s good grades, verbal sophistication and empathy as evidence that she couldn’t be autistic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Supermarket tabloids never provide an end-of-year list of false predictions by psychics, nor do the more upscale New Age periodicals, which, despite a veneer of sophistication, are just as fatuous.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
“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
Munich: 396 icons, barbaric gemstones strewn across the velvet sophistications of Orthodox theology.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Abner tossed his head with a suppressed snort; he felt but little inclined to give encouragement to this manikin, this tidier-up after studio teas, this futile spinner of sophistications.
From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller
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