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, refining, polish, nuance, civilisation, finish, refinement, purification

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1. • Processing

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1. List of paraphrases for "refining":

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

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1. Kendall Brown:

   Colonial-era sources show that officials, both political and technological, were aware of possible pollution from the refining processes.

2. Oliver Taylor:

   Those Nexcel oil cells, once they're used, come back to Nexcel for recycling where we split them apart, clean and re-use them a number of times. But also we take that used engine oil, we pass it through a re-refining process, and that allows us to use the oil a number of times.

3. Shell Refining:

   The Board has concluded that refining margins are expected to remain depressed due to overcapacity in the global refining industry.

4. Steve Maraboli:

   Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing… changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant."

5. Richard Gorry:

   For crude, there's a structural change, going from fairly balanced to an oversupply, for products...demand has not collapsed, (it's) just a tendency of oversupply of refining capacity and slower demand than had hoped for.