adept

Muse was, unsurprisingly, adept at perusing Facebook Marketplace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

No wonder the action sequences never seem exhilarating — Latif may be adept at staying alive, but the sanctity of his soul is another matter entirely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The products of similar training programs, both men were Persian speakers adept at shaking off Iranian surveillance teams in the labyrinth of Tehran’s backstreets and alleyways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Driscoll wanted urgent modernisation by adding drones throughout ordinary army formations to make it adept for 21st Century warfare.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Fortunately, Penkovsky proved more adept than the Americans at finding a way to communicate with the West.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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

This sextet of straight-ahead adepts builds upon the postbop language of the 1960s — what you might recognize from Miles Davis’s second great quintet or Joe Henderson’s first few Milestone albums.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 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