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  • verb Present participle of sophisticate.

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Examples

  • He ought to be a thorough Judge of Colors, to know all their Properties, and common Tricks that are used in sophisticating Dyes of all sorts, not with an Intention of cheating his Customers, but to guard against the Imposition of those who would impose upon him in the Sale of Goods.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Christianity has been disfigured by the corruptions of schismatising followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating and perverting the simple doctrines he taught … caus (ing) good men to reject the whole in disgust and view Jesus himself as an imposter.

    Think Progress » O’Reilly Teaches Viewers the True Meaning of Christmas 2005

  • I thought I was so alone in the great debate of the sociologists … in that obsession with “sophisticating” their subject and the object of their analysis … which was certainly a way of leaving many people out.

    Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009

  • You are sophisticating your most basic efficiency as a human being.

    "Facing Ali" (2010) Steven Barnes 2010

  • Like Pullman, the Founding Father called them "superstitions" and "fabrications" added by people who had "an interest in sophisticating & perverting the simple doctrines [Jesus] taught by engrafting on them the mysticisms of a Grecian sophist, frittering them into subtleties & obscuring them with jargon."

    'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ,' reviewed by Ron Charles 2010

  • Then came the “sophisticating” of brand value selling, and out - sourcing.

    Archive 2006-10-29 Newmania 2006

  • We're like out sophisticating ourselves, gee I'll vote not for the guy I really guy, but for the guy I think or woman that will win in November.

    CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2008 2008

  • He said that Women Development Forum must be established here (who also announced for its establishment informally) to boost their existing skill by different ways like giving them more training, linkage their products to national and international market, sale points and sophisticating their existing skill and handicrafts.

    Sustainable Development of Chitral Women stressed in round table meeting 2008

  • Then came the “sophisticating” of brand value selling, and out - sourcing.

    Broken Fridges and the Government Newmania 2006

  • You could spend your life “sophisticating” numerical treatements of a simple Lorenz system only 3 ODE ! and be flabbergasted how difficult it is to only sort out the problems of convergence , error propagation and sensibility to non physical parameters like the time and space integration step .

    Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007

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