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dexterity

[dek-ster-i-tee] / dɛkˈstɛr ɪ ti /


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He handles a violin and a sniper’s rifle with equal dexterity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

The main aim of the offer is to perform tasks requiring dexterity, to train the robots of the future to use their hands.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

As the Quanta X1 Pro's clothes folding demonstrated, robots still can't match human dexterity.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

Some scientists believe this could eventually lead to more expressive digital instruments, smarter training tools, and even rehabilitation systems that use musical movement to improve dexterity and coordination.

From Science Daily May 28, 2026

His slender feet are arched and poised with perfect dexterity, like a ballet dancer.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The crusty paint on ragged burlap, the blurred and bulbous shapes, can only be made to look tragic within the context of Klee's earlier dexterities.

From Time Magazine Archive

His incapacity for acquiring the dexterities by which men accommodate themselves to their neighbours' wants implied a tendency rather to under-estimate the worth, whatever it may be, of such dexterities.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Works of J. Linnell and S. Palmer.of study, yet unappreciated by the public, because what they do is unrecommended by dexterities of handling.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John

And here was a thing for the little dexterities of a lawyer's clerk.

From The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Post, Melville Davisson

Discipline, the dexterities of strategy, an enlightened courage, and the tremendous force of esprit de corps were alike nullified.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Murfree, Mary Noailles




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