skillful

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How did a recherché, quasi-French dish leave the skillful hands of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved cooks and wind up being popular grub for millions of today’s cooks and consumers, white and—emphatically—black?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

But then the latter's skillful knack of snaffling wickets came to the fore as he bagged two of Australia's dogged top order.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

The irony is that these tactics were once the preserve of less skillful teams that had few other ways of getting anywhere near the goal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

Able to switch moods and tones with a stylish, skillful ease, Trier brings out the best in all the film’s performers, mixing a knowing, bittersweet humor with deep insights.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

A rueful smile, a shrug, and a nod as if to a skillful opponent who’d made a good move at the chessboard: that was what her body said.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman