SOPHISTICATING Synonyms: 96 Similar and Opposite Words

sophisticating

verb

present participle of sophisticate

as in complicating

to make complex or difficult there's no need to sophisticate something that is beautiful in its simplicity

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as in diluting

to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances vanilla extract that has been sophisticated with corn syrup

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Recent Examples of sophisticating Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. — James Duesterberg, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026

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Conventional versions can contain elastic bands, clasps, clips, foam and multiple synthetic textiles, complicating recycling and other end-of-life options.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026
Even so, Chinese firms still trail their American counterparts by more than 6-to-1 in capital raised from markets over the past two years, with Washington’s chip export curbs complicating the catch-up effort.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of complicating

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The next three drivers ranked outside the Chase — Ross Chastain (12th at Richmond), Brad Keselowski (26th) and Erik Jones (27th) — also lost ground, diluting the potential drama of a surprise qualifier.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Too many founders resort to diluting their equity just to fund operational order fulfillment.

— Chris Hale, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of diluting

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Summary Major League Baseball's push for a salary cap is intensifying, fueled by recent record-breaking franchise sales.

— Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Getting ahead in the burgeoning industry could also boost China’s standing in the intensifying competition with the US on artificial intelligence and advanced technology.

— John Liu, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of intensifying

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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie livestreamed a ribbon-cutting ceremony early Thursday as the new Grocery Outlet store opened its doors.

— CBS News, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Torrents overwhelmed infrastructure, cutting power to tens of thousands of homes, flooding about 170 houses and blocking roads, while a landslide hit Togane and muddy water inundated cars and railway tracks.

— Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of cutting

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The only appropriate response to the industry’s rush to build costly, polluting gas plants at the sites of data centers is a pause in development and enactment of new policy guardrails, designed in close consultation with affected communities.

— John Kostyack, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
This large mass will translate into higher quantities of polluting propellant needed to loft these systems off Earth and a much larger amount of metals vaporizing in Earth's atmosphere during reentry.

— Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of polluting

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In response, Diez brought up Schaeffler’s plant in South Carolina, where Digit is working right now, loading greasy machine parts into an industrial washer.

— John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
The Red Sox were limited to one run in the bottom of the 11th despite loading the bases with one out.

— LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

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Sandoval’s ex, Dillon Maquindang, stood at a podium Thursday morning and decried the defendant for cheating on them, manipulating them and taking out his failures on Maquindang’s family.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026
In recent years, totalizing ideologies such as communism, fascism, and Islamism have found dedicated audiences on social media, and the proliferation of demagogues manipulating people for malign ends is an ever-present worry.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of manipulating

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But the 16 bacteria-infecting viruses described on August 6 in Science were no ordinary specimens.

— Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2026
Only the 2014–16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa has been larger and deadlier, infecting more than 28,600 people and killing 11,325 across Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

— Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

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