sophisticated instrument

collocation in English

meaningsofsophisticatedandinstrument

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sophisticated
adjective
uk
/səˈfɪs.tɪ.keɪ.tɪd/us
/səˈfɪs.tə.keɪ.t̬ɪd/
having a good understanding of the way people behave and/or a good knowledge of culture ...
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instrument
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.strə.mənt/us
/ˈɪn.strə.mənt/
an object, such as a piano, guitar, or drum, that is played to produce ...
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(Definition ofsophisticatedandinstrumentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Or, was patronage also a moresophisticatedinstrumentof party management?
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It is asophisticatedinstrumentfor military attack.
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What this means is that we have a much moresophisticatedinstrumentfor judging how resources should be distributed around the country.
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In other words, it is a relativelysophisticatedinstrument.
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A chart is a necessary tool of navigation and a highlysophisticatedinstrument.
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Let us make it flexible - you can help do that - but let us recognise that it has to be asophisticatedinstrumentin a real economy.
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Rural txistu musicians continued their own traditions with self crafted rustic txistus, while the urban "txistularis" formed schools to teach the brand-newsophisticatedinstrument.
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By asophisticatedinstrument, known as an optical interferometer, any length can be measured in terms of the wavelength of laser light.
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Given the administrative difficulties of those countries in employing sophisticated instruments, we use simple production taxes as instruments of environmental policy.
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However, these tests require sophisticated instruments and trained personnel, and are more useful in the referral diagnostic centre in the developing countries.
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In addition, benefitting from advances in physics, telemetry, optics, and communications, they were relying on sophisticated instruments capable of yielding sufficiently precise and detailed observations to address those questions.
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He referred to the expense of modern sophisticated instruments and the implication of society with its modern tooling up.
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Yet we are talking about these infinitely more sophisticated instruments of management which are being put into their hands.
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The growing area of cross-border banking, insurance sales and wealth management which has some very sophisticated instruments is a growing problem.
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It is easily demonstrated; it does not require sophisticated instruments to measure it and the legislation could be enforced in the same way as noise abatement notices.
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In case of human cysticercosis diagnosis is a sensitive problem and requires biopsy of the infected tissue or sophisticated instruments.
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These are both types of structured products, which are sophisticated instruments and carry a significant risk of loss of capital.
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Sophisticated instruments and reagents enable effective dissociation of brain tissue.
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Traditional methods are still used in areas where modern instruments are not common or by practitioners whose primary task is not surveying with sophisticated instruments.
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