sophistication

Speaking at the UK Space Conference, Streeting said that threat from Britain's adversaries was growing in "scale, speed and sophistication", adding that the "challenges in space increasingly mirror the geopolitics on Earth".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

The oldest surviving complete harpsichord dates from 1521 and is Italian, the sophistication of its mechanism suggesting that the techniques for making harpsichords were already extremely well advanced by then.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

“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

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

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

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