dexterous
Example Sentences
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On Monday night, Mr. Netanyahu tried to pull off a similarly dexterous maneuver.
From New York Times
The story was told with a minuteness of detail and dexterous use of technical phrases that not only imposed upon the ordinary reader, but deceived and puzzled men of science to an astonishing degree.”
From Washington Post
Despite all of the show’s dexterous villains, fierce emancipators, persevering women and supernatural surprises, it handed the crown to a boy who’d literally slept through much of the show’s 73-episode run.
From Los Angeles Times
Also comfortingly unchanged: the dexterous use of the landscape outside the tent as a playing space.
From New York Times
Among many other marvels, he observes how the cephalopod's tentacles are remarkably dexterous, rapidly manipulating tool-like objects and conquering fearsome prey.
From Salon
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