competence
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Someone who has accumulated $2 million or more in retirement savings has demonstrated financial discipline and competence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Among the advantages, he cited "strong competence of the German industry, debt funding capability from the German state and joint experience within the community" on previous fighter jet projects.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
"It allows people to express frustration about competence, privilege, money and social fairness without directly touching more sensitive subjects," he tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Kids under the age of 10 with a high amount of daily screen time face significant developmental repercussions like irritability, a lack of executive functioning, poor sleep, and, critically, poor social and emotional competence.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
For ten years she hadn’t realized the breadth of what I had accomplished with my exacting competence, the daily work I did, which unto itself became an unassailable body of cover.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
These types of companies "will move elsewhere" if they can't find the right IT competences in Sweden, argues Jeppeson.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
"I was very happy there, I could work, people saw me as a person with competences and not like a problem," she said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 23, 2022
Instead of "left" versus "right," think of two different core competences.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2020
“It’s the degree of specialization, the number of factories you’d need and the number of competences to make all the different parts,” Fowler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2018
As for the men who were the early captains of railway industry, they none of them secured more than modest competences.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
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