adept
Example Sentences
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But the group has become adept at shape-shifting to circumvent the crackdown, said Moustafa Ayad, an executive director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit that tracks extremist online content.
Mr. Cameron was once a crafty genre writer and an adept director; now he is merely a showman.
The term gained traction around the league as a way to explain the strategies of guards like Curry and James Harden, who became adept at launching highly difficult 3-pointers with astonishing efficiency.
It’s the type of offense that can absolutely shred even top college defenses—just as long as the quarterback is adept at making those split-second reads.
Britain and the U.S. proved themselves particularly adept at coordinating allies, not least because London yielded leadership to Washington voluntarily.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
