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adept

[uh-dept, ad-ept, uh-dept] / əˈdɛpt, ˈæd ɛpt, əˈdɛpt /


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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

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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