apt
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Mary is a bookworm who draws her apt conclusions about human behavior from written wisdom.
From Salon • May 20, 2026
Apparently, if left to its own devices, OpenAI’s Codex coding agent is apt to repeatedly talk about goblins apropos of nothing.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
“Blue Heron” is an autobiographical project, but it’s more apt to call it a memoir.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
Which is apt enough: With this comes the forbidding sense of being at the end of the world with no guardrails.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Roger was a funny sort of fellow—kind of gruff, apt to speak bluntly, almost rudely.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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