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sophisticate

[suh-fis-ti-kit, -keyt, suh-fis-ti-keyt] / səˈfɪs tɪ kɪt, -ˌkeɪt, səˈfɪs tɪˌkeɪt /


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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

It pulls people in on the promise of speaking effortless French in a Parisian bakery, on being a sophisticate with the drive to learn another language.

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2023

Compared with the tense drama surrounding Zara and Bakhtiar, what happens to the filmmaker seems at first like comic relief — a fish-out-of-water caper about a big-city sophisticate snagged by rustic brambles.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

With a virgin piña colada in my hand, I was no longer a silly little girl in a Laura Ashley dress, but a budding sophisticate sipping a fancy cocktail with maraschino cherry-stained red lips.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2022

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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