competencies

Example Sentences

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"The staff that were coming in didn't necessarily have the training and the skills and the competencies to be able to meet the needs of these young people."

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Businesses often try to parlay their core competencies into new product lines and markets, said Tsay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Lund said that the board had proposed bringing in several new board members to add new competencies, while the majority shareholder, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, "wanted a more extensive reconfiguration".

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

I feel like General Zod from Superman, floating off into space trapped inside a two-dimensional phantom zone, screaming in silence about my job qualifications and core competencies.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025

Numbers of these nouveaux riches are now—this was written in '92—"touring in Europe, or living comfortably at their ease on competencies thus acquired."

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada