fluent
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He spoke fluent Spanish and, not long before contact was lost, had moved to the Fontibon area of the capital, Bogota.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
His earlier paintings often seem hard-won, made with a heavy hand, but as Hans Namuth’s well-known film of Pollock at work reveals, delicate gestures and dance-like movements translated into fluent drawing in the drip paintings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
A Spanish citizen, he is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“At the time, I was the first commissioner in the agency’s 37-year history to speak fluent Russian, the language of the world’s largest Arctic nation.”
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Tomorrow Berlin wouldn’t be able to help because she’d be in a full-day intensive with a visiting Elder who was fluent in Southern Michif and Plains Cree, who had only enough English to get by.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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