proficient

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Like other reality TV- and social media-made politicians who’ve moved into politics, Pratt is proficient at reinventing himself and grabbing attention.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Lowery makes proficient use of the confined setting where Sam and Mary reunite, building a two-hander chamber drama around Coel and Hathaway’s fervent commitment to the weird and inane.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

He ‘became . . . extremely proficient at lying to us,” says the ex-congressman’s close friend Sen. Gallego.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

One major consequence of the last four years of war is that Ukraine and Russia are now the most experienced and proficient practitioners of drone warfare in the world.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 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