sophisticate
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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
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
She worked hard to sophisticate him, getting him out of his hideous cheap blue suits and into respectable tweeds, refining his Midwestern accent.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2021
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
Johannesburg had always been depicted as a city of dreams, a place where one could transform oneself from a poor peasant to a wealthy sophisticate, a city of danger and of opportunity.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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