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[pruh-fish-uhnt] / prəˈfɪʃ ənt /


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Often a parent hears a child speaking English with friends or siblings and assumes the child is already proficient and has exited the program, Villarreal said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Grilling on a sailboat turns out to be much harder than grilling on land where I’m quite proficient.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The distances are added up, although some of the most proficient skimmers will hit the back wall of the quarry, a distance of 207ft or 63m.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

“We think of them becoming one of the defining companies building open-weight models and specialized enterprise intelligence. We think there’s an aperture for a highly proficient American solution,” Tanger told me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

A preponderance of the members were Jewish, a group that had pursued the game for centuries and was highly proficient at it.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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