competence
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"These are not symbolic things; they are concrete demonstrations of what serious partners do, serious partners train together, learn together, plan together, and build the confidence and competence necessary to prevent conflict," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Being told you’re weak is a claim about identity, and the people in C-suites have built their self-concept around competence and resolve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
With medicalization, we assume care, we assume competence, we certainly assume humanity.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
You were your own judge of competence, and as soon as you felt you were ready to go, off you jolly well went.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
The first minister said it would be a "detailed, meaningful exercise reflecting on where powers and specific competences should lie, how regional working works best and what effective cooperation looks like".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
It will, among others, employ “people ...with competences such as in data management, risk management, credit risk management, supply chain management,” Morawiecki told Polish public radio.
From Reuters ● Sep. 22, 2017
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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