adept
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Does that mean Seehorn is an adept liar?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
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
Lucie Leguay was the adept conductor, leading 17 musicians from the Orchestre de l’Opera de Lyon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Though reserved to the point of being shy, the sheriff was adept at assuming undercover identities, having pretended to be everything from a cow rustler to a counterfeiter.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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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
As McKenna told me, western seekers were eager to believe that eastern adepts had supernatural abilities.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 24, 2019
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
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
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