sophisticate
Example Sentences
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He was an everyday guy who had fallen in love, not a highbrow sophisticate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
Drake is a social media sophisticate, a fine walker of the almost completely obliterated line between fandom and creation.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2023
Those who know Lee only as his Gi-hun character would barely recognize the dapper sophisticate sitting with excellent posture in a small greenroom.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2022
As Burrows told the New York Times in 1983, the trio “wanted to create a show around a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy-type relationship” between a sophisticate and an average Joe.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2020
At school he was Toby the cool-cat sophisticate; and now, suddenly, he was Toby, the grief-stricken ancient Egyptian.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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