Synonyms for refining
re·fin·ing

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1. refining, refinement, purificationnoun

   the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

   Synonyms:
   purgation, nicety, culture, elaboration, shade, subtlety, civilization, cultivation, polish, nuance, civilisation, finish, refinement, purification

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1. List of paraphrases for "refining":

   refinery, refinement, refine, refineries, grow-out, smelting, fine-tune

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1. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu:

   Whatever the extra (it) won't be in the market but go for our refining.

2. Mehdi Varzi:

   The whole industry is in a mess, iran has 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of refining capacity, but it is the wrong capacity. Iran wants western technology and American technology specially.

3. Andrew Wheeler:

   The RIN prices have been relatively low and relatively calm since last spring so that would tell me that there should be less economic harm in the refining industry right now than there was a year ago, there's more than just the price of RINs for economic harm but just by that factor alone, I'd think maybe there would be fewer refinery exemptions because of that.

4. Joseph Todd:

   We've been treating the whole thing as a bit of a general election dry run, really... refining campaigning techniques and trying to come up with new ones, this is the next step for the Corbyn Project.

5. The IEA:

   In 2015-2016, net capacity additions will be more than needed, which will cause the global utilization rate to decline, and casts a doubt on the continuation of current unusually high refining margins.