aptitude
Example Sentences
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Throughout his 20s he worked in jazz clubs, eventually opening a Tokyo bar and coffee shop despite lacking “the slightest aptitude for running a business.”
The continent’s economic power, Germany, is building a database of young people, cataloging their fitness and aptitude to help it pick whom to draft should the country be attacked.
The old have a clearer view of the inevitability of destruction and a willingness—though no real aptitude—to contemplate what might succeed it.
The process would create a database of military-age Germans that details their physical and mental health, their skills and aptitudes, and their willingness to serve.
There are jump cuts too, and interludes of his actors in close-up that could be color screen tests or just a nod to Hujar’s aptitude for portraits.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
