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

While that record was a pared-down showcase of his dextrous vocal skills, his new album is said to be veering in a different direction.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2020

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.