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How to use the word sophistication in a Sentence?

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That’s the level of sophistication – it looks like a strike package, and that’s part of the step up in pressure, this is not a couple of fighters coming close and then going straight back after putting one wing across the median; this is a much more purposeful maneuver.

Euan Graham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The conspiracy in which she is alleged to have played an integral and central part was one of the highest possible sophistication, planning, risk and reward.

Philip Stott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm watching the news, and I'm really impressed with the passion and sophistication of tribal health care and the ways that communities are able to know how in their community to get that vaccine out.

American Indian

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The self-employed are not going to have it easy in this new beginning due to the complex environment in which they will operate, with few dollars and inputs in the economy, but with the ingenuity of the Cuban and the sophistication of the parallel market, they will be able to take off little by little.

Pavel Vidal

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The SEC is trying to increase investor participation in private offerings in a way that allows various types of registered and private funds to serve as gatekeepers for sophistication and access, rather than arbitrary income and wealth metrics.

Lawrence Stadulis

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We often talk about the sophistication of the scribal education of ancient Israel, and rightfully so, [but the inscriptions on the altar show] that ancient Moab had some gifted scribes as well.

Christopher Rollston

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

For this level of sophistication it's not a criminal group. It is a government that has capabilities that can do this kind of attack.

Lior Div

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I would think the Trump administration could -- if they choose -- cite the principle of self-defense under the UN Charter and conduct operations accordingly, but those operations would have to be proportional to the threat -- a threat that has now been made more challenging by the sophistication of Iranian air defenses.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication.

Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

On President Trump’s on actually hurting Mexico with tariffs, “That might be his play, if we can ascribe any sophistication to it. That’s a big if, because he may just be insane.”

Flavio Volpe

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Alexa isn't going to be able to teach a child to speak, just like children can't learn to speak from TV, even though smart speakers — unlike TV — are interactive, they are nowhere near the sophistication of a human, or more specifically, the sophistication of an adult who can instinctively coach a child in picking up her first language.

Alexis Hiniker

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As we refined the sophistication of the approach and the mutation classification, the algorithms and the sequencing, it has become clear that this was a big challenge that would require coordinated investment and organisation, we have to collect five to ten thousand tumour samples and normal blood, we have to quality-control the DNA sequencing and do the data management and statistics -- it's a combination of large-scale epidemiology and large-scale genomics that haven't been married together in this way before.

Mike Stratton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I don’t care how secure you think your organization is, I’ll social engineer my way inside in less than 24 hours regardless of the sophistication of your IoT microcosm security. Whatever obstacles I run into exploiting your technical vulnerabilities will be made up for by exploiting the vulnerabilities in the cyber hygiene of your staff.

James Scott

added by Matthew jhon
6 years ago

As the sophistication in the telescope increases, the prediction is that they will be able to determine the spectrum coming from these planets, they're so far away, and really there's no light, it's only the star they'd be able to see, but that's the goal. Because its so important to be able to detect life elsewhere in the universe.

Shiladitya DasSarma

Found on CNN
6 years ago

This cyberwar will be a continuous marathon war that will only compound and hyper-evolve in stealth, sophistication and easy entry due to the accelerated evolution of “as a service” attack strategies for sale on the dark web.

James Scott

added by Matthew jhon
7 years ago

We have the technical sophistication of Tinker Toy’s protecting the IoT microcosms of America’s health sector organizations.

James Scott

added by Matthew jhon
7 years ago

China has clearly advanced from 10 years ago with the explosive growth of its market. Its films - special effects, blockbusters - have developed in line with increasing sophistication and demand in the entertainment sector.

Wilfred Wong

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Look at the stealth and sophistication of foreign nation state APTs who break through even the most sophisticated layers of security daily and tell me why they would just give our completely unprotected election systems a pass

James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

added by williamson
7 years ago

Real cybersecurity means that your Security Operations team is consistently pen testing your network with the same stealth and sophistication as the Russian nation state, the same desperation as China’s 13th Five Year Plan, the same inexhaustible energy of the Cyber Caliphate and the same greed and ambition for monetary payoff as a seasoned cyber-criminal gang.

James Scott

added by joaquintaylor
7 years ago

They've executed attacks on hotels before, but none at the level of sophistication or as spectacular as have been in recent months.

Ryan Cummings

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The security industry is facing a great challenge due to the changing threat landscape. Ten years ago networks faced generic broad attacks by kids, today, it's nation state attacks on critical infrastructure and organized crime attacks on financial assets. This requires much more sophistication.

Shlomo Kramer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Today, it's nation state attacks on critical infrastructure and organized crime attacks on financial assets. This requires much more sophistication.

Shlomo Kramer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's going to make them far more effective, it will most likely increase the sophistication of cyber intrusions and cyber reconnaissance over the long term. It will make them a lot more formidable to sustain cyber operations in a contested environment.

John Costello

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I always thought that we needed to more clearly define our political strategy along with our military strategy, there is no military solution to this. We are up against an ideology, we are up against a reality, a set of dynamics we've never seen before -- sophistication of social media, the military prowess, the tactical strategic prowess that ISIS possesses, the funding.

Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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