competence
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They can suffer from lower perceived competence, burn out, and ultimately quit or flee to other sports to escape the older sibling’s shadow, which isn’t necessarily a negative course correction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and his seemingly supernatural competence at both city management and marketing, has laid a blueprint for kitchen-table progressives looking to bust out of the Trump-era holding pattern.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
They continue to underperform because they reward teacher seniority over competence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Someone who has accumulated $2 million or more in retirement savings has demonstrated financial discipline and competence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Colonel Tony Johnson, Nancy’s commanding officer when she had worked at usamriid, remembered her competence in a space suit and wanted to get her back.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Concerns include monitoring the competences of therapists and doctors working for digital apps, and worries about "very aggressive marketing" from some of the private companies behind them.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2021
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
He’ll also discuss potential changes to EU competences and ways to improve communication between elites and the public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2016
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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