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dextrous

[dek-struhs] / ˈdɛk strəs /


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This may also explain why other animals with trunks, such as tapirs, never developed such dextrous trunks as elephants, as they never moved into open lands.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

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

"It was just incredibly dextrous and skilled," says Putrino.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2021

In Salvator, the imagination is vigorous, the composition dextrous and � 19.

From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by Ruskin, John




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