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Greenspan exhibited a deft touch with financial markets, saying the barest minimum in his statements but seemingly always conveying what traders wanted to hear.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Hockney’s largest canvas — at more than 7 feet tall and 20 feet wide — is filled with deft lines and Hockney’s signature swirls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Copley revolutionized American portraiture through his deft handling of paint and, still more, through his use of objects and clothing to combine individual psychology with social status.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Within those decades, there wasn’t just deft marketing campaigns and organic interest growth that raised American pistachio’s profile — there was punitive foreign policy on the world’s then-top pistachio producer.

From Salon ● May 6, 2026

His maimed hands, two fingers and thumb remaining on each, were deft and quick.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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 this particular story needed a defter touch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2021

Whatever one may wonder about Özil’s motivations, he has shown a defter touch on social media than most of his teammates have managed on the pitch since the season began.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2020

In sooth it seemed of them that they were both of stouter fashion, and defter than women are wont to be.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William

The skill with which Friedan connects the dots between the subjugation of intelligent, educated women and the ruthless, calculated mind-numbing agenda of consumerism turns out to be her deftest move.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

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

Bourgue continued to produce an array of winners, including the deftest of drop shots, to delight the home crowd in Philippe Chatrier court.

From BBC ● May 25, 2016

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

Shakespeare the actor was by the common consent of his enemies one of the deftest fellows that ever made use of other men's materials—'Convey, the wise it call.'

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine