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Rakesh Maria, a former Mumbai police commissioner, has cited Bishnoi as an example of a new generation of gangsters who are more technologically adept and internationally connected than their predecessors.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

While those companies have become adept at gaming search-engine traffic and social-media conversations to bring in customers, how to adapt to a flood of agent-driven traffic is less obvious.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Players adept at challenges need to tap their helmets more often: Each team starts the game with two challenges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“The justice often publicly portrayed as unyielding and inflexible is, behind the scenes, the conservative who is uniquely adept at finding common ground on the most divisive issues.”

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026

Claudia would also drive him to and from certain out-of-the-way Los Angeles destinations; otherwise he was quite adept at traveling by bus to wherever he wanted to go.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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

The Lioness in Winter recounts Burack-Weiss’ coming to terms with life past 70, a quest she pursued by immersing herself in the work of several old female writers she regards as adepts: May Sarton, M.F.K.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2016

Taking a more mystical turn are adepts of another doctrine: the strong anthropic principle.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2015

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