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. The Democratic mayor:

   The answer is, bring back jobs, bring back activities, and keep refining our policing strategies. There’s no question in my mind, as the city comes back, that's going to help us to reduce crime and violence.

2. Tony Nunan:

   The (global) inventory situation is going to get worse in the second quarter as we hit the peak refining rate at the end of this quarter, (But) this has been so well documented that its been built into prices. I do think we're close to the bottom and the bottom in prices will be this quarter.

3. Kim Woo-kyung:

   That caused global oversupply and refining margins to tumble as demand couldn't (keep) supporting the increasing supply.

4. Adam Schiff:

   It is my hope that the administration will be willing to accept important limits in a new authorization as well as the sunset or repeal of the old [ authorizations ], as this will be necessary to ensure strong bipartisan support and meet the goals the president set last summer of refining and repealing the prior authorizations.

5. Chief Executive Joe Gorder:

   There is nothing currently pending, i don't think there are any refining assets that are in the market that we would take a look at.