competence
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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
Yet the future secretary of state — and architect of the Marshall Plan — was most concerned with competence and candor leading to military effectiveness.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 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
They continue to underperform because they reward teacher seniority over competence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
And of course they all got brown woollen socks knitted by yours truly, displaying various degrees of competence.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
"I was very happy there, I could work, people saw me as a person with competences and not like a problem," she said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 23, 2022
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
It is true that numerous Uitlanders acquired competences, and some were amassing fortunes, but such prizes were comparatively few.
From Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by C. H. Thomas
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