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.
Her aptitude and charisma also made her under usage more prominent.
From Salon
They said proof of his aptitude included how, during a jail stint, he figured out how to pick locks on a food chute to slip into a women’s section.
From Washington Times
“After discovering a surprising aptitude for technical writing, I began work on a young adult novel,” Publishers Weekly quoted her as saying.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
