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knack

[nak] / næk /


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But his younger daughter, Patita, has shown a knack for judging the broth’s flavor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

Despite his work existing on a massive blockbuster scale, Steven Spielberg has always had a knack for appealing to the individual.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2026

Throughout his career, Shreiber had a knack for finding business opportunities in strange places, and a talent for turning around struggling companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

While Patchett has clearly drawn on actual events and individuals to produce this luminous work, she exhibits the expert novelist’s knack for following a plot where the imagination takes it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

“I’d bet the moon itself he’s all right. That Faucet fellow has a knack for survival, and self-invention, too.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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