adroit
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It’s the ideal midnight movie, an adroit balance of the funny and the macabre, the frightening and the ridiculous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
In March, Nestlé showed that it’s adroit enough to bounce back from some bad luck.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Kovrig described Chinese negotiators as "extremely adroit, calculating, and always looking for leverage".
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
But adroit as ever, Kirk had a way of tilting the odds of those engagements in his ideological favor.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2025
But thanks to her adroit inventing skills—the word “adroit” here means “skillful”—everything worked the way it was supposed to work, and suddenly Violet found herself feeling a piece of metal instead of a cloth rope.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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