Example Sentences

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The government was refining its black economic empowerment programme "to ensure that it supports greater transformation and inclusive growth," Ramaphosa said.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

The DUP leader said he was "refining" those issues with the government.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2023

At the moment he spoke, the Wehrmacht was driving towards Moscow, Rommel's Afrika Korps ruled the North African littoral, and Admiral Yamamoto was refining his Pearl Harbor attack plan.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2023

The fourth was refining our new technique to fabricate these large structures, which is basically making flat panels and heat forming it in an oven.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022

In Europe, another innovator, Charles Babbage, born the son of a banker in 1791, was developing an early calculating machine at the time that Morse was refining and evangelizing the telegraph.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel