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[pruh-fish-uhnt] / prəˈfɪʃ ənt /


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Overall achievement remains low: 33% of students scored as proficient or better in English on state tests; 20% in math.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

Thus, the percentage of these Locke students who scored as proficient in English improved by 18.2 percentage points.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

In court, there were only a limited number of messages from EL, all of them sent to Lavrynovych and Carpiuc, which showed him writing in formal Russian and far less proficient Ukrainian.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

Lowery makes proficient use of the confined setting where Sam and Mary reunite, building a two-hander chamber drama around Coel and Hathaway’s fervent commitment to the weird and inane.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2026

Ample warning against such a notion is provided by the academic painters and sculptors of the nineteenth century, who were as a group among the most proficient artists in history—as well as the dullest.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson




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