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dextrous

[dek-struhs] / ˈdɛk strəs /


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As many great apes perform dextrous and technical foraging behaviours, it is likely that the capacity for these complex sequences is shared across ape species.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

Next came Bing, Microsoft's search engine updated with a similarly dextrous chatbot, which can answer queries where no obvious result existed online -- like what car seat to buy for a particular model vehicle.

From Reuters • May 10, 2023

With little more than a wardrobe full of costumes and a homemade green screen, he transformed his dextrous wit and encyclopedic knowledge of musical theater into a profoundly successful career.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022

Her scenes, which reveal a dextrous use of surprising materials, are both haunting and dreamlike.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2019

In Great Britain a clever man is a dextrous man, one who performs an act with skill or address.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.




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