skills

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A passionate storyteller driven by the adrenaline of breaking news, Alvarado has honed her skills in writing, photography and editing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Transforming the U.S. industrial base requires at least $2 trillion, plus skills and infrastructure.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

In a December Rand survey, about two-thirds of college students who used AI for homework agreed the technology was hurting critical-thinking skills.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

What Lily couldn’t have foreseen, of course, was that her amateur detective skills would become necessary when, one day, George is found dead, and the investigation by a bumbling local policeman isn’t up to snuff.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

This must be where I inherited my “tidying up” skills from.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas