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adeptness

[ uh-dept-nis ]

noun

  1. the quality or fact of being highly skilled or expert at something; proficiency:

    Thanks to the teacher’s adeptness at explaining the intricacies of calculus, her students quickly grasped even the more arcane concepts.



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  • non·a·dept·ness noun
  • un·a·dept·ness noun

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Example Sentences

If Kieboom gets another shot as the everyday third baseman, he is adept at moving to that spot between first and second.

With billions of images online, Google’s machine learning becomes adept at using shapes and other elements to compare and comprehend what the images on your site represent.

Within these quarters, they exhibited adept political acumen and increasingly demanded leadership recognition.

The repeat offenders identified by EIP are particularly adept at reframing things that were originally true by quote-tweeting them and adding their own narrative, the report notes.

The biggest offender here is the president of the United States, who has proved an adept manipulator of the traditional press to push his disinformation campaign.

Adeptness in the performance of our values must be ever-present, but identifying and sticking with those values come first.

If so, the little trick had been done with deplorable spontaneity or adeptness of usage.

Yet deep in his nature was that obliquity, that adeptness at trickery, that facility in deceit, which made him the success he was.

Lubimoff was astonished at the way this woman spoke in all seriousness of her present adeptness.

An adeptness at discovering grievances has lately been one of the principal recommendations to public notice and popular applause.

She answered shortly enough, and the skimming of the milk was not done with the adeptness which she usually displayed.

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