sophistication

“There were a few other companies that were helping teams do that identification and narrowing-down process, but nothing I think in the level of sophistication that Impect does,” he said.

It was the kind of cynicism that poses as sophistication—the belief that Benjamin Netanyahu was continuing the Gaza war for his own political purposes.

But he was keenly loyal to his literary home: He canceled his subscription to the Saturday Review when that publication ran an attack on the New Yorker’s “shallow sophistication.”

What's different now is the sheer sophistication of the technology, with the widespread use of mobile phones, social media, messaging apps and now AI making it easier for people to mobilise.

Orange County’s new sophistication ought to be above rivalry, but a touch of parochial defensiveness remains.