competence
Example Sentences
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“Kevin Warsh’s confirmation as the next Federal Reserve Chairman is a momentous step towards finally restoring accountability, competence, and confidence in Fed decision-making,” White House spokesman Kush Desai told Barron’s.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
"If you've got really high autonomy, high social support and you've got some level of competence and confidence then you can succeed."
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
But having a diploma on the wall is no guarantee of your lawyer’s competence or ethics.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
Maybe achieving great things, and competence itself, is a choice we can make.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
What Brunelleschi had discovered was not the vanishing-point or the distance-point construction; he had not engaged in elaborate measurements or sophisticated geometrical constructions, even if he had the competence to perform them.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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