dextrous

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It already bore the hallmarks of her best work: Rhythmically and lyrically dextrous, and chock full of personality.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

This may also explain why other animals with trunks, such as tapirs, never developed such dextrous trunks as elephants, as they never moved into open lands.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

Next came Bing, Microsoft's search engine updated with a similarly dextrous chatbot, which can answer queries where no obvious result existed online -- like what car seat to buy for a particular model vehicle.

From Reuters • May 10, 2023

With little more than a wardrobe full of costumes and a homemade green screen, he transformed his dextrous wit and encyclopedic knowledge of musical theater into a profoundly successful career.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022

Neither will he receive less Satisfaction from the curious and most dextrous Dissections perform’d by the artificial Hand of the Anatomy Professor.

From Medicina Flagellata Or, The Doctor Scarify'd by Anonymous