proficient
Example Sentences
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The fire brigade, for example, "were really most proficient in the city at that time".
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
The scams have started appearing in U.S. immigrant communities, experts say, though they haven’t spread widely in Western countries, in part because of a shortage of scammers proficient in American or other Western accents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Film critic Elaine Mancini once described Duvall as "the most technically proficient, the most versatile, and the most convincing actor on the screen in the United States."
From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026
She said she went out on her e-bike to "become more proficient".
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
It often involved solving practical problems or making something new, and that appealed to her considerable and burgeoning intellectual curiosity—a curiosity that had already made her an unusually proficient student at school, scholarly even.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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