competencies
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Early relationships teach us basic social competencies: how to express emotions, cooperate and forgive, and how and when to compete—all skills we use at work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
Lund said that the board had proposed bringing in several new board members to add new competencies, while the majority shareholder, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, "wanted a more extensive reconfiguration".
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
I feel like General Zod from Superman, floating off into space trapped inside a two-dimensional phantom zone, screaming in silence about my job qualifications and core competencies.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Any student who failed their final placement had the opportunity to repeat it and achieve the competencies they had not achieved in a four week retrieval, the inquiry heard.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024
Possessing the smallest of competencies, this unhappy woman appeared to spend her life in journeyings between Endelstow Churchyard and that of a village near Southampton, where her father and mother were laid.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
