dexterity
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In Schoenbrun’s debut novel, “Public Access Afterworld,” the filmmaker takes a sizable risk, stripping away the meticulously crafted onscreen worlds to assert the dexterity of their prose.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
Perhaps the biggest unsolved problem is recreating the dexterity of human hands with high-precision sensors and motors, a shortfall that was on full display when the robot loaded my dishwasher.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Amodei sent Brown to put that diplomatic dexterity to work in Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Johnson showed the same dexterity with his wedge play as he did when winning the 2007 Masters and 2015 Open to cruise to a two-stroke victory in the groundbreaking $3m event.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t’ai chi.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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The crusty paint on ragged burlap, the blurred and bulbous shapes, can only be made to look tragic within the context of Klee's earlier dexterities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In truth, it was beautiful to see such clear, almost childlike simplicity of heart coexisting with the finished dexterities, and long experiences, of a man of the world.
From On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle
And so, by a pretty rapid evolution, the dexterities which the boxing glove and the Queensberry rules were supposed to substitute for the old brutalities of Sayers and Heenan were really abolished by them.
From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Bernard Shaw
In fact, there are subtle dexterities, acquired by sagacious experience in searching for valuable little trinkets in great libraries, just as in other pursuits.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton
So next day, Lemoyne, deploying his natural graces and his dramatic dexterities, drew away the curtain.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
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