adept
Example Sentences
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Saturday was extremely calm at sea, and the smugglers - adept at studying the weather forecasts - were quick to load large groups of people onto overloaded dinghies.
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Democratized access to AI tools has resulted in talent oftentimes having access to more powerful tools outside companies and being more adept at using them.
But the group has become adept at shape-shifting to circumvent the crackdown, said Moustafa Ayad, an executive director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit that tracks extremist online content.
Mr. Cameron was once a crafty genre writer and an adept director; now he is merely a showman.
The term gained traction around the league as a way to explain the strategies of guards like Curry and James Harden, who became adept at launching highly difficult 3-pointers with astonishing efficiency.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
