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
Her prose has an apt amount of literary embellishment: Jaguars are “light-footed dancers” and a snake bulges “like Saint-Exupéry’s hat.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
A broken link is also symbolically apt for what Baker has learned in a short England career to date.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 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
His oarsmen also found the name apt, but none of them was likely to call him it to his face.
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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