competence

Helping him learn healthy money habits could instill a sense of confidence and competence that he might not gain from simply having money handed to him.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Nepotism drives out talent like Miller’s, and neither competence nor grit can be passed down as reliably as a bank account.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

But no matter what Ben did, his efforts were matched by the unmeretricious competence of Wyatt Sanders.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

"Another option is to adopt a document that focuses on specific decisions in the sphere of G20 competences, and let everyone say the rest on their own behalf," Lavrov said.

From Reuters ● Sep. 1, 2023

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

While Spicer South and his cousins had been sustaining themselves or building up competences by tilling their soil, the leaders of the other faction were basing larger fortunes on the profits of merchandise and trade.

From The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck