proficient
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Overall achievement remains low: 33% of students scored as proficient or better in English on state tests; 20% in math.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Thus, the percentage of these Locke students who scored as proficient in English improved by 18.2 percentage points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
In court, there were only a limited number of messages from EL, all of them sent to Lavrynovych and Carpiuc, which showed him writing in formal Russian and far less proficient Ukrainian.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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
Ample warning against such a notion is provided by the academic painters and sculptors of the nineteenth century, who were as a group among the most proficient artists in history—as well as the dullest.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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