competence
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Someone who has accumulated $2 million or more in retirement savings has demonstrated financial discipline and competence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Among the advantages, he cited "strong competence of the German industry, debt funding capability from the German state and joint experience within the community" on previous fighter jet projects.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
To my horror, even graduate-level students entering a master’s program sometimes lack basic writing skills and competence in the English language.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
There are performances of warmth, competence, abundance and ease.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Claude understands that he ought to resent them, but he admires their competence and manners, the clean efficiency with which they move.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
These types of companies "will move elsewhere" if they can't find the right IT competences in Sweden, argues Jeppeson.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
"Today, the rule of law has won over the usurpation of competences," Michal Wojcik wrote on Twitter.
From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2021
Instead of "left" versus "right," think of two different core competences.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2020
“It’s the degree of specialization, the number of factories you’d need and the number of competences to make all the different parts,” Fowler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2018
As for the men who were the early captains of railway industry, they none of them secured more than modest competences.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
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