sophistication
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"It showed a level of market sophistication that almost no other issuer has," Kerr said of the Cursor acquisition.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“As you play these games, and especially when you play them in front of an audience, you are constantly signaling something about your sophistication and decision-making,” Bernheim said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
In other words, retail investors lack the size and sophistication of institutional investors and are likely to trade more frequently, chasing the next big trends without paying close attention to valuations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
The little flavor sachets often marketed with all the sophistication of a church cookbook fundraiser.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
Academics in the softer fields dress up the trivial and obvious with the trappings of scientific sophistication, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
“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
The trouble is that we have not yet attained several sophistications that are necessary for its successful operation.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Domain, a modern enclave built by the President for useful foreigners and technocrats, Salim is introduced to the casual sophistications of the Big Man's white men and the records of Joan Baez.
From Time Magazine Archive
Raw food he devoured with relish, more especially cabbage-leaves and other vegetables, but turned away from the sophistications of cookery.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 by William Chambers
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