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Greenspan exhibited a deft touch with financial markets, saying the barest minimum in his statements but seemingly always conveying what traders wanted to hear.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Borgli’s deft mixture of punchy dark humor and thorny subjects makes for a distinctly American movie that only a Norwegian could think up.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Nevertheless it has been a coming-of-age moment for Cobolli, whose baseline power, deft touch and athleticism is a match for anyone.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

What I missed amid the novel’s deft personality critiques was precisely what Laura sees in her friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

It was seventeen minutes of Barack’s deft and easy way with words, seventeen minutes of his deep, dazzling optimism on display.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Andrew Bayliss, the author of “Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower,” is a defter writer than Xenophon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

In between the defter displays, Johnny Rockett, the clown, lampoons various circus skills.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

Even defter is Terrance Fleming’s channeling of a hippie Orsino, who lounges on cushions in the center of the in-the-round stage.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2021

But this particular story needed a defter touch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2021

I told her about fifteen cents a box, adding that some of the defter fingered of them often made three and four dollars a day.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

The online blurb says the book is a "darkly humorous novel that uses the deftest touch to draw a thread through the lives of Welsh farmers, city accountants, Indian hoteliers and Eisteddfod mums".

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country” is the deftest revival of a dead franchise I’ve seen in a long time, and “Dune: Prophecy” is an elegant extension of a cinematic phenomenon.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

Jay Roach’s movie follows the tribulations—and exhausted triumphs—of Dalton Trumbo, one of the deftest of American screenwriters.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2015

So Mr. Christie, among the deftest of politicians, took pains to put any tone of bullying aside.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2013

Hannah's slender hands were quicker and cleverer than those of the deftest maid, and she knew how to transform the young girl's plain boarding-school frocks into something quite pretty and original.

From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz