dextrous
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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
The finished record doesn't disappoint - resurrecting Gang Starr's dusty grooves and block-rocking beats; while Guru's streetwise rhymes still sound dextrous and fresh.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2019
By means of it, Prince Wladomir was as invulnerable to mortal weapons, as Achilles the Hero; and as nimble, quick and dextrous, as Achilles the Light-of-foot.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
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