adroit

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Drew Sensue-Weinstein’s sound design, which included adroit use of reverb on voices and instruments, dovetailed with Gabriel Crouch’s skillful conducting, which brought out the score’s transparent, early music-style radiance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

The former midfield maestro was expected to overhaul Madrid's game with a cerebral and tactically adroit approach, but his team flattered to deceive.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

But adroit as ever, Kirk had a way of tilting the odds of those engagements in his ideological favor.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2025

The result, according to the Evening Standard's Nick Curtis, is a "technically adroit and complex production in which a team of stage managers play almost as important a part as Snook".

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2024

But thanks to her adroit inventing skills—the word “adroit” here means “skillful”—everything worked the way it was supposed to work, and suddenly Violet found herself feeling a piece of metal instead of a cloth rope.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket