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dexterity

[dek-ster-i-tee] / dɛkˈstɛr ɪ ti /


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Johnson showed the same dexterity with his wedge play as he did when winning the 2007 Masters and 2015 Open to cruise to a two-stroke victory in the groundbreaking $3m event.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

The company has already secured orders for a new version of Digit that it is developing, which should have finer dexterity to move smaller objects and incorporate higher safety standards, according to Johnson.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

As the Quanta X1 Pro's clothes folding demonstrated, robots still can't match human dexterity.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

Some scientists believe this could eventually lead to more expressive digital instruments, smarter training tools, and even rehabilitation systems that use musical movement to improve dexterity and coordination.

From Science Daily May 28, 2026

Mary didn’t realize until months later that he’d been studying her hands, checking their dexterity and strength to see how they’d stand up to hours of delicate cutting, scraping, tweezing, and pipetting.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

The crusty paint on ragged burlap, the blurred and bulbous shapes, can only be made to look tragic within the context of Klee's earlier dexterities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Art, accordingly, means every regulated operation or dexterity whereby we pursue ends which we know beforehand; and it means nothing but such operations and dexterities.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

Take, in the devil's name, the hire of your dexterities," said Ysabeau, and pushed this document with her wet pen-point toward March, "and ride for Berkeley now upon that necessary business we know of.

From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott

I was already fifteen years in the country, and fifteen years her inferior in those civilized dexterities.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon

Besides instinctive aptitudes, which are exhibited in almost equal perfection by all the members of the same species, there are acquired dexterities which depend on individual opportunities.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson




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