competence
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"He offers a sense of fun, confidence and an aura of competence rooted in individuality and that gives him a different kind of power."
From BBC • May 5, 2026
But having a diploma on the wall is no guarantee of your lawyer’s competence or ethics.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
All this competence puts us in a strange state — a suspenseful trance — in which you feel on edge while also relaxing into the idea that the characters have things under control.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
And then there’s a second issue, which I think might even be at least as important, which is the competence of the implementation.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2026
At some point in the future, she knew from listening to the second-year students, she would begin to take pleasure in her competence.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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