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Collocations for sophistication - noun

ADJECTIVE

considerable, great
growing, increased, increasing
cool
cultural, intellectual, musical, political, technical, technological, theoretical

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… OF SOPHISTICATION

degree, level
Computers raised the level of sophistication of these maps.

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VERB + sophistication

have
The decor has a cool sophistication.
demonstrate, show
lack
grow in
Financial markets have grown in sophistication as well as size.

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PREPOSITION

with sophistication
He writes with increasing sophistication on the subject.

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PHRASES

an air of sophistication
Despite her scruffy clothes, there was an air of sophistication about her.
a lack of sophistication
He felt people were contemptuous of his lack of sophistication.
a veneer of sophistication (esp. BrE)
She adopted an upper-class accent to give herself a veneer of sophistication.

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