competent
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A: "One thing Brazil has done very well is that financial regulation has been surprisingly consistent across administrations. Competent players in the financial industry have made money in Brazil."
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
Competent teams with heart and want-to, like the Denver Nuggets, who are next on the docket Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
Competent copycat dramas abound these days, making this show’s place on the lower side of the quality scale’s midrange fairly typical.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024
"Competent government" and "competent leadership" were, she said, key to achieving these aims.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2023
That in the Ascension of Water in Pumps, &c. there needs nothing to raise the Water, but a Competent weight of an External Fluid.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
Vocabulary lists containing competent
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 26–31
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