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How to use the word sophisticated in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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I’ve spoken to several (smugglers), they have received military training … using war tactics … to carry out sophisticated raids.

Salah Malkawi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This result adds to what we know about plant responses to stress. It is a useful contribution to the field and to our general appreciation that plants are responsive organisms capable of sophisticated behaviors.

Richard Karban

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Consumers see slim cans as more sophisticated, which makes them feel more sophisticated, for people who spend $3 for a mushroom elixir, they want the package to signal trendy too.

Duane Stanford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re fun and sophisticated. Ocean’s Eleven. That was an MGM experience, we want to be both aspirational but also accessible.

Adam Greenblatt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bad actors have won the jackpot, previously private data such as emails, handles, and creation date can be leveraged to build smarter and more sophisticated hacking, phishing and disinformation campaigns.

Rafi Mendelsohn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Perhaps in reading it, it was the most sophisticated, you know, and detailed, and again, about things I don’t necessarily, you know, know too much about, but it sounded plausible and I wanted to make sure that we were looking into the issues brought up in the text.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While we think of book bans as the work of individual concerned citizens, our report demonstrates that today's wave of bans represents a coordinated campaign to banish books being waged by sophisticated, ideological and well-resourced advocacy organizations.

Suzanne Nossel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to take what Taylor Swift fans can already do at a sophisticated level, tease it out for them a bit with a different vocabulary, and then show them how, in fact, Taylor Swift draws on richer literary traditions in Read MoreStudents songwriting, both topically but also formally in terms of how Read MoreStudents uses references, metaphors, and clever manipulations of words, i'll be showing students that these operations and interpretive moves one makes when reading Read MoreStudents songs are appropriate to all forms of writing.

Elizabeth Scala -LRB- @swiftieprof -RRB-

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nobody can control Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company by force, if you take a military force or invasion, you will render Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company factory non-operable, because this is such a sophisticated manufacturing facility [ that ] it depends on the real-time connection with the outside world — with Europe, with Japan, with United States.

Mark Liu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To be honest, you know, Elon Musk is really rich, right ? I had assumed he would spend money on hiring people to build some sophisticated tool or methods by himself.

Kaicheng Yang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we talk about information operations, we usually say the Russians are the most prolific, the Chinese are the most sophisticated, and the Iranians are the most angry, most of their anger is not directed at the United States, but it is directed at American allies.

Brad Smith

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This ship in particular has a sophisticated design, stealth features, radars, and a large missile inventory. It is larger and more powerful than most US, Japanese, and South Korean destroyers.

Carl Schuster

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It kind of revolutionized our understanding of who the Anglo-Saxons were. This discovery illuminated the so-called Dark Ages and showed that these people were culturally sophisticated with amazing levels of craftsmanship and far-reaching trading connections.

Laura Howarth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am looking for The Original Series, with a 21st century budget, if they can combine sophisticated stories with beautiful special effects and the 1960s' Right Stuff' energetic storytelling, then I'm going to be over the moon.

Ben Robinson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These are sophisticated banks and companies, no one was lending us money without their own vetting.

Alina Habba

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They have a lot of capacity, a lot of military capacity, so, they're a pretty sophisticated country, we know that, so I think they could do more.

United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think this is the first big war in the digital age that has galvanized Americans' attention, and there's a quantum leap in the toys and tools journalists are using since the last big American war in 2003 in Iraq, but all of this sophisticated technology still relies on the basic journalistic values of accuracy, verification, and fairness. Journalists still gather news piece by piece, often through dogged shoe leather reporting, interviewing witnesses, sifting through information, questioning, it, testing it, authenticating it — and then summarizing, synthesizing and analyzing it all in a clear and concise way to keep the public informed.

Mark Feldstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think one nuanced difference between Russia and China is that China has the technical capability — their Great Firewall is very sophisticated and Russia doesn't have as much of that, as much as they [ Russia ] want to do a comprehensive, full blockage, I think technically there are some challenges.

Xiaomeng Lu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The most efficient sanctions on Russia is to supply [Ukraine with] defensive weapons, including … sophisticated anti-missile [and] anti-air equipment.

Valeriy Chaly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Think of it like a very sophisticated version of the ice maker in your refrigerator, but then on steroids.

Jordy Hendrikx

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We were just five minutes into the conversation when I knew I would offer her the job, she had an unusually mature and sophisticated view of the law and the role of the courts.

David Tatel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we can cover it without taking a side per se in an overt way. I think the audience and the readers are sophisticated enough when they read what’s going on to draw their own conclusions about whether it’s good or bad for our democracy.

Noah Oppenheim

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's a way for people to learn the game and participate in the game at a pretty sophisticated level.

John Madden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We expect the vulnerability to be widely exploited by sophisticated actors and we have limited time to take necessary steps in order to reduce the likelihood of damaging incidents.

Jen Easterly

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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