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In a 116-ball stay, he mixed innovation with brutal power and deft touches.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

In a deft bit of narrative maneuvering, Gerald’s voice breaking was written into the show; Jamil Walker Smith played the character for all five seasons and one movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“We hear the VP views Schmitt as trustworthy, intelligent, articulate and a deft political operator,” VandeHei wrote.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Yet the film is more than the deft redeployment of familiar tropes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Such an obvious ploy, that, yet deft for a boy of fifteen.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

But that may explain why it ultimately feels like the defter, more surefooted film, and one whose subtle depths and lingering emotions belie the diminished platform to which it’s essentially been relegated.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 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

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 Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

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

I remember late in the day on the windswept Friday standing behind the 14th green as he conjured the deftest of chips to get up and down from another missed green.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2024

Victoria Jones is a very amiable student from Lancashire who begins talking to me a mile a minute in a way that would defeat the deftest shorthand practitioner.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2017

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

The luxuriant tresses of the male Arguellos were combed and braided and tied with a ribbon every morning by the women of the family, and Concha's fingers were the gentlest and deftest.

From Rezanov by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton