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Whether he is pulling a pint, tossing a builder's helmet in the air or running with Olympic medallist Mo Farah, the UK's new prime minister Andy Burnham has embraced social media with a deft touch.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Greenspan exhibited a deft touch with financial markets, saying the barest minimum in his statements but seemingly always conveying what traders wanted to hear.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Nevertheless it has been a coming-of-age moment for Cobolli, whose baseline power, deft touch and athleticism is a match for anyone.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Within those decades, there wasn’t just deft marketing campaigns and organic interest growth that raised American pistachio’s profile — there was punitive foreign policy on the world’s then-top pistachio producer.

From Salon ● May 6, 2026

The king's own fool, the pie-faced simpleton called Moon Boy, danced about on stilts, all in motley, making mock of everyone with such deft cruelty that Sansa wondered if he was simple after all.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Andrew Bayliss, the author of “Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower,” is a defter writer than Xenophon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

But this particular story needed a defter touch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2021

Whatever one may wonder about Özil’s motivations, he has shown a defter touch on social media than most of his teammates have managed on the pitch since the season began.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2020

The balance of mystery and resolution felt defter here than it has in a few episodes, but there were still messes aplenty.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2015

The wit, a jocose fencing-master, Mr. Cornelius Kelly, now fenced with words, and in all his life never did defter work.

From Oliver Goldsmith by E. S. Lang Buckland

The online blurb says the book is a "darkly humorous novel that uses the deftest touch to draw a thread through the lives of Welsh farmers, city accountants, Indian hoteliers and Eisteddfod mums".

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country” is the deftest revival of a dead franchise I’ve seen in a long time, and “Dune: Prophecy” is an elegant extension of a cinematic phenomenon.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

Each serving of pad Thai hor khai, made by the deftest street vendors, is wrapped in a silk-thin omelet.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

Jay Roach’s movie follows the tribulations—and exhausted triumphs—of Dalton Trumbo, one of the deftest of American screenwriters.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2015

She proved by far the deftest and cleverest of the three at the task now to be performed.

From Jack Haydon's Quest by John Jellicoe