sophisticate

As anchored as he is to Beirut, she is a transnationally minded sophisticate who is in a major hurry to move to Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

Brady has morphed into a brand sophisticate, with a supermodel wife and a growing wellness empire, but he began his career as a naïve, goofy — if hyper-driven — Everyman.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 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

He is a sophisticate, a weekend denizen of New York’s theater district, a clotheshorse.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

There’s no quiz show in “Age of Vice,” but there is a poor boy who slides through a backdoor into a demimonde of degraded sophisticates.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

But her honest voice and honest cooking caused Manhattan and Brooklyn sophisticates to clamor for her beautifully prepared Southern food.

From Salon ● May 25, 2022

They moved to a small town, but they thought of themselves as cultural sophisticates, intelligent and liberal.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2020

In the fickle calculus of what defines fashionable, New Yorkers have always been a constant, the seen-it-all sophisticates whose idea of normalcy includes riding an impossibly overcrowded subway and inhabiting a ridiculously overpriced apartment.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2020

He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

But at times, the caliber of their technical and harmonic choices sounds arty and sophisticated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Over time, Western components have been disappearing from the Shahed, Ukrainian officials and analysts say, even as the drones gain more sophisticated navigation and attack capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Furthermore, this situation is unlikely to change, regardless of how sophisticated Wall Street’s AI models become in the future.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

The former Newcastle and Chelsea manager remains a Uefa technical observer and speaks about adapting to the modern game, using social media, artificial intelligence and increasingly sophisticated data as part of his approach.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

In England, farm breeders had refined the creation of novel breeds and variants to a highly sophisticated science.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

As a rule, such colours when manufactured in England may be fairly assumed to be genuine; and certainly the respectable colourmen of the present day are not in the habit of sophisticating them.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter

Is it possible the Wringhims, and the sophisticating wretch who is in conjunction with them, the mother of my late beautiful and amiable young master, can have effected his destruction?

From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

Nothing comes to him, not spoiled by the sophisticating medium of moral uses.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

We can in part; but our Lord has taught us in this prayer that it is not to be done by denying or sophisticating facts.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

It does so partly by sophisticating it—the sensibility to right and wrong being weakened by every evil act, as a cold in the head takes away the sense of smell.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren