sophistication
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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
Experts have warned cyberattacks on ships can be extraordinarily dangerous, depending upon the sophistication and the type of vessel involved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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
I spent three hours in conversation with him and was struck by his sophistication and willingness to listen.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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“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
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Another 500 years later, with Tennyson's pious allegories, Mark Twain's farce, John Erskine's sophistications, etc.,
From Time Magazine Archive
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All the sophistications in life, for example, might have appeared to muster on behalf of the menace—the menace to a bright variety—involved in Strether's having all the subjective "say," as it were, to himself.
From The Ambassadors by Henry James
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