Italian term
Also an English teacher
Native in: English 
Works in: Italian to English, French to English, English to Spanish
si affina
Dall'inizio della collaborazione con la regista attrice-perfomer Eloisa Gatto, la sua ricerca si affina maggiormente con l'inserimento dei rumori dal vivo e con l'esplorazione di nuovi incontri tra musica e scena, coadiuvati in gran parte dallo studio del mimo corporeo astratto di Etienne Decroux.
From the beginning of his collaboration with the director, actress-performer Eloisa Gatto, his research honed mainly with the introduction of live sounds and with the exploration of new encounters between music and the stage, assisted in great part by the study of Etienne Decroux's abstract corporeal mime.
| 3 | is enhanced |
Janice Giffin
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| 2 +2 | is refined |
dandamesh
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Lara Barnett
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| 3 | improves, develops |
Sabrina Bruna
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Proposed translations
Italy
Accuracy, reliability and timeliness
Native in: English 
Works in: Italian to English, Spanish to English
is enhanced
"in which the excitement of research is enhanced by inspired teaching and enthusiastic learning."
An actor’s performance is enhanced by: an ability to put personal skills like imagination, emotional honesty and empathy at the service of a creative process
Italy
Law, marketing, medicine/pharmacy
Native in: Italian
Works in: English to Italian, French to Italian, Italian to English, and 3 more.
improves, develops
is refined
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further refined by
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Michael Korovkin
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Sarah Thompson
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Lara Barnett
: I think this has a slightly incorrect nuance here.
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United Kingdom
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Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean, UK, South African)
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
honed
I get the sense that using "honed" in some way, maybe by restructuring the phrase if it sounds odd, conforms more to the sense and nuance of the source term.
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"Publishing on a variety of topics in the interim, Anderson HONED HIS RESEARCH ON Arapaho art into a focused project by about 2004, "when I began visiting various museums and archives, as well as doing online research of museum collection databases that only became available at that time," he says."
https://www.hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=17487
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