growing sophistication
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowingandsophistication
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growing
adjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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sophistication
noun[U]
uk/səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/səˌfɪs.təˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the quality of ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandsophisticationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The second is the expansion andgrowingsophisticationof the early market economy, particularly during the seventeenth century and after.
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Historians have also been able to appropriate thegrowingsophisticationof theoretical approaches to masculinity, drawn from the fields of genetics, anthropology, psychology, and linguistics.
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The chapter illustrates thegrowingsophisticationachieved by animal studies in recent years.
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This resistance neatly symbolizes, to my mind, agrowingsophisticationin the archaeology of food, a development seen everywhere in this particular smorgasbord of essays.
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The reason is the progressive enhancement and thegrowingsophisticationof defence systems.
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We are achieving agrowingsophisticationin the diagnosis of regional ills, and their treatment, and the long-term prognosis is good.
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Indeed, with theirgrowingsophisticationand dependence on technology especially electronics, they will need more, not fewer, recruits.
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With thegrowingsophisticationof the audience, the two often go together.
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But over the last 10 years it has witnessed a proliferation of companies and, in many cases, agrowingsophistication.
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In today's conditions, with thegrowingsophisticationof weaponry, a different type of soldier is required.
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Rising scientific costs associated with thegrowingsophisticationof science mean that the budget is unable to pay for what it used to buy.
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It would become progressively easier for us to do so with thegrowingsophisticationof conventional systems.
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Thegrowingsophisticationof the professional advice services in the provinces may provide the best answer, alongside the development of the business expansion scheme.
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I have tried to illustrate my feeling that our procedures for checking public expenditure need to be re-examined in the light of agrowingsophisticationof economic and technological decision-making.
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However, within thatgrowingsophisticationthere is a need to provide a single, coherent signpost for business men seeking solutions to any one of a myriad of problems.
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Eventually she finds herself forced to suppress hergrowingsophisticationin order to maintain the image of innocence her fans have embraced.
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