- cosmopolitan
- duck
- experienced
- grandmother
- have been around the ridges idiom
- pedigreed
- practised
- pseudo-sophistication
- ridge
- sea dog
- seasoned
- senior
- sophisticated
- take to something like a duck to water idiom
- teach your grandmother to suck eggs idiom
- ultra-sophisticated
- urbane
- urbanely
- veteran
- warhorse
Meaning of sophisticate in English
Examples of sophisticate
sophisticate
By building theories and inventing concepts, we sophisticate the subjective image of the world rather than get a grasp of the material reality behind it.
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But a sympathetic and careful inter pretation of these systems shows sophisticated underlying order.
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Barbiers reports that informants had sophisticated judgments about dialect areas.
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The container, thus, is simple and unassuming, although incredibly sophisticated in its detailing and craft.
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If one focuses on the development of fringe benefits from workers' perspective, these measures, however sophisticated for their time, still left much to be desired.
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In the special case of negative campaign advertising, recent studies have questioned whether such political sophisticates are indeed more sensitive to elite mobilization efforts.
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This analogous point made in discussions of act-consequentialism is enlightening, since sophisticated act-consequentialists do possess an overarching commitment to maximizing the good.
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Not even political sophisticates, however, appear to make such distinctions in their attitudes towards government.
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Object-oriented languages, especially, have sophisticated support for user-defined overloading.
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Some have sophisticated evidence for their beliefs, while others have little or no such evidence.
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Furthermore, the user is not compelled to learn a specialised vocabulary to control the robot's behaviour nor does the interface require sophisticated programming skills.
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There may be conflict between the family's ready assumption that the formerly intelligent sophisticate feels most distressed in the intellectual decline of dementia.
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In religion, true pluralists are a rare and very recent phenomenon, and members of a very small minority of theological sophisticates.
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Most computation methods for the well-founded semantics (except the alternating fixpoint procedure) need sophisticated data structures or algorithms already to guarantee a correct evaluation.
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They were sophisticated about the economic incidence of taxation in their dual economy.
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