dexterity
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When he pops “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” under the spotlight, a volunteer cowers in the chair while Garry leaps over it with impressive dexterity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
But experts and developers alike agree that the current technology is not yet suitable for some repetitive tasks that require more dexterity.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Sharpa is an AI start-up developing hands that have humanlike dexterity.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 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
They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t’ai chi.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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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
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Discipline, the dexterities of strategy, an enlightened courage, and the tremendous force of esprit de corps were alike nullified.
From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree
His incapacity for acquiring the dexterities by which men accommodate themselves to their neighbours' wants implied a tendency rather to under-estimate the worth, whatever it may be, of such dexterities.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen
Miss Powers is very original in an older school, while Miss Nourse displays all the technical dexterities of the present day.
From The Galleries of the Exposition by Eugen Neuhaus
It has begun and ended in exhibiting the dexterities of individuals, and conventionalities of systems.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
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