proficient
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People who spoke more languages tended to have younger-looking brains, and the effect also appeared stronger among those who learned another language earlier and became more proficient.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
In Renaissance Italy, with its patchwork of independent city-states and republics, widespread warfare encouraged the expansion of citizen militias proficient in firearms for civic defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
A native Spanish speaker, he is also proficient in Mandarin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
But among those who had 8th grade scores, 19.6% of that group scored as proficient in English.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
It often involved solving practical problems or making something new, and that appealed to her considerable and burgeoning intellectual curiosity—a curiosity that had already made her an unusually proficient student at school, scholarly even.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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