dextrous

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As many great apes perform dextrous and technical foraging behaviours, it is likely that the capacity for these complex sequences is shared across ape species.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

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

For Penelope, Jacky's dextrous and agile use of words has added piquancy because she is dyslexic.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2020

Twice he thrust at me and twice I barely avoided his dextrous onslaughts.

From My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia by Watson, Robert