adept
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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
Yet he also became extraordinarily adept at navigating and thriving within giant corporations.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Europeans have become adept at building AI applications, but the foundational models, infrastructure and computing capacities underlying them are largely in U.S. hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
He’s a 24-year-old, defensively adept big man who would be a great pickup, just hard to get.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
He grew adept at manipulating the shapes of cooking hot dogs and, for fun, developed an entire line of gag frankfurters.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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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