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competence

[kom-pi-tuhns] / ˈkɒm pɪ təns /


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"We are seeing what material is accreting to build the planet and moons," added main lead author Gabriele Cugno of the University of Zürich and member of the National Center of Competence in Research PlanetS.

From Science Daily • Oct. 29, 2025

Competence, of course, is nothing to sneeze at.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2022

Assistant coach John Winder will now move on to Wigan's partner company Competence Development in support of youth and community rugby league programmes.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2021

Claude Bruderlein, director of the Geneva-based Center of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation, wants to change COVAX's equity model to one based on efficiency, prioritizing areas prone to major outbreaks.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2021

Still had Labour been blest with Content, Still Competence happy had been, Nor Indigence utter'd a plaint, Had Avarice spar'd but the Green.

From An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects by Bloomfield, Nathaniel




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