Example Sentences

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Venezuela’s military has sophisticated air defenses, including a substantial amount of Russian-made equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Even though the human visual system has sophisticated machinery for processing color, the brain has no problem recognizing objects in black-and-white images.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

Many experts question whether North Korea has sophisticated cameras to use on a spy satellite, because photos it has released from previous test launches were low-resolution imagery.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2023

They question the appropriateness of this for a species that has sophisticated capacity for processing information, rudimentary tool use, complex visual pathways and, not least, the capacity for pain.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2023

We do not suppose that he intended to sophisticate them: the difficulty seems rather to be, that he has sophisticated himself.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman