adept

Rakesh Maria, a former Mumbai police commissioner, has cited Bishnoi as an example of a new generation of gangsters who are more technologically adept and internationally connected than their predecessors.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

They must contend with both an opaque and sluggish bureaucracy and well-connected local rivals adept at navigating India’s corridors of power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

But not like us higher mammals, some of which have even become quite adept at problem-creation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Players adept at challenges need to tap their helmets more often: Each team starts the game with two challenges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

With even half an hour of practice, he says, people can become adept at picking up microexpressions.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

To borrow from “The Big Lebowski,” another cult classic passed around by DVD-owning adepts, say what you will about moron-maxxing, at least it’s an ethos.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

But if even adepts feel that way, why do these true crime mavens continue to dedicate hours dutifully trying to crack mysteries with methods they know are imperfect?

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2020

Literature extolling the virtues of silence has been accumulating for millennia, in Hindu and Buddhist scriptures, in sayings of Christian hermits and mystics, in teachings by modern yoga adepts and meditators.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2017

Taking a more mystical turn are adepts of another doctrine: the strong anthropic principle.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2015

There are a few genuine adepts present who throw themselves rapturously into the music, eyes shut, arms upraised, waiting, no doubt, for the onset of glossolalia.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich