adept

The same tools that made filling out forms easier have made politicians and bureaucrats more adept at creating more paperwork.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Artificial intelligence has become so adept at creating realistic images, it is increasingly hard to figure out what is real or not.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Equally at home in shadowy dives and modern mansions, she proves an adept investigator, with Sherlockian observational skills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Yet he also became extraordinarily adept at navigating and thriving within giant corporations.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

The organism was too frightening. to handle, even for those who were comfortable and adept in space suits.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

And now we know that there are two types, or at least two types, and they have this relationship as adepts and drones.

From Salon ● May 15, 2022

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

The Lioness in Winter recounts Burack-Weiss’ coming to terms with life past 70, a quest she pursued by immersing herself in the work of several old female writers she regards as adepts: May Sarton, M.F.K.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2016

She collected over four hundred alchemical, medicinal, and cosmetic recipes, and corresponded with other alchemical adepts about materials and laboratory techniques.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 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