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adept

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


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Women, she says, tend to be more adept at "masking" the condition.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Today’s drivers aren’t hearing sirens, law enforcement agencies contend, because modern vehicles are adept at noise-blocking.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 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

Cut off from civilization, the Nhambiquara Indians were adept at hiding from plain view in the rain forest.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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

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

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




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