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competence

[kom-pi-tuhns] / ˈkɒm pɪ təns /


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The UFZ researchers operate over a wide range of disciplines from hydrology, toxicology, microbiology and environmental chemistry to social sciences and are part of the UFZ's Microplastics Competence Cluster.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

Competence, of course, is nothing to sneeze at.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2022

Claude Bruderlein, director of the Geneva-based Center of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation, wants to change COVAX’s equity model to one based on efficiency, prioritizing areas prone to major outbreaks.

From Scientific American • Aug. 26, 2021

Competence to stand trial is indispensable in all courts — but especially in criminal courts.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2020

Competence, responsibility were words she had been taught to revere, and to hear them light-heartedly disavowed seemed an upturning of the foundation of things.

From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John




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