adept

Gould was adept of the dark arts of financial distress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Liverpool have been long-term admirers of the RB Leipzig player, who can play on both the left and right flanks and is adept with both feet.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

But these days, French players are proving a little more adept at keeping out of trouble—even when trouble comes looking for them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

And, as it turns out, Hawk and Pína might not have the whole roster, either; they’re just more adept at acting as though they do.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Candidates would need a degree of stenographic and typewriting skill, but what he most looked for and was so very adept at sensing was that alluring amalgam of isolation, weakness, and need.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

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