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sophistication

[suh-fis-ti-key-shuhn] / səˌfɪs tɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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"It showed a level of market sophistication that almost no other issuer has," Kerr said of the Cursor acquisition.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

They were each charged with unlawful taking of a vehicle and second-degree burglary — both counts enhanced with allegations that they have prior criminal records and the crimes required sophistication and professionalism to carry out.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

"This work highlights how much sophistication exists inside insect societies," Baer said.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

“As you play these games, and especially when you play them in front of an audience, you are constantly signaling something about your sophistication and decision-making,” Bernheim said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

After all, for grandness and sophistication nothing could match a world-class rowing team.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

“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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This great truth, when stripped of the manifold sophistications of a false logic, is so clear and unquestionable, that it has not failed to secure the approbation of abolitionists themselves.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.




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