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sophistication

[suh-fis-ti-kay-shuhn] / səˌfɪs tɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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Speaking at the UK Space Conference, Streeting said that threat from Britain's adversaries was growing in "scale, speed and sophistication", adding that the "challenges in space increasingly mirror the geopolitics on Earth".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Resembling fishing nets, the mesh lacks the sophistication of other military hardware.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Despite the growing sophistication of the models, Pujo-Menjouet says one central idea remains relatively simple.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

“Your trustee needs to have some financial literacy and sophistication, and you must actually trust them. You will also need successor trustees,” said David Haas, a certified financial planner and owner of Cereus Financial Advisors.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Henry Dobbins was a good man, and a superb soldier, but sophistication was not his strong suit.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

“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

Munich: 396 icons, barbaric gemstones strewn across the velvet sophistications of Orthodox theology.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another 400 years and the parfit gentil knights in the pious allegories of Alfred Lord Tennyson startlingly resembled iron-padded Victorian cricketers, later followed by Mark Twain's slapstick farce and the droll sophistications of John Erskine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The counsel for the brewers had a face so extremely inflamed and illuminated with carbuncles, that I did not wonder to see him an advocate for these sophistications.

From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various




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