Example Sentences

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“Since I became a parent, everything is refining: What are my values actually?” she said, explaining that she didn’t want her search for community resources to involve so much sifting through online posts about stuff.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025

Her team is refining mass spectrometry techniques to detect ever smaller molecules and hopes to use them to find miniproteins that play a role in brain development.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 24, 2024

As for next steps, the research team is refining their machine learning approach, making it more accurate as well as generalizable, and more useful for a range of applications.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

Nakashima is refining his footwork and movement to the net to separate himself from that crowd.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2022

Why, Mr. Dillwyn, knowledge itself is refining; and then, so is comfort; and I could help them to more comfort, in their houses, and in their meals.

From Nobody by Warner, Susan