sophistication
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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
“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
His instincts are impeccable, but he's yet to acquire the sophistication of Ian Fleming's character, much less a licence to kill.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
In other words, retail investors lack the size and sophistication of institutional investors and are likely to trade more frequently, chasing the next big trends without paying close attention to valuations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
The very thought of my contacts gave me a feeling of sophistication, of worldliness, which, as I fingered the seven important letters in my pocket, made me feel light and expansive.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
“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
Another 400 years and the parfit gentil knights in the pious allegories of Alfred Lord Tennyson startlingly resembled iron-padded Victorian cricketers, later followed by Mark Twain's slapstick farce and the droll sophistications of John Erskine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Munich: 396 icons, barbaric gemstones strewn across the velvet sophistications of Orthodox theology.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems too bad to threaten the naïve little thing with our rude sophistications, but it is amusingly of the ingenuousness of the age from which present dogmas have survived.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
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