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skillful

[skil-fuhl] / ˈskɪl fəl /


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Still, Cora remains widely-admired around the game, considered skillful at handling fickle modern players.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

The emphasis on skillful play and Bloodborne's gothic, Victorian setting made it an instant favourite with critics, and it's widely regarded as one of the best video games of all time.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Martin cites Timothée Chalamet’s orange-hued campaign for “Marty Supreme” as a particularly skillful deployment of the trend.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

In a nation of noisy confrontationalists—the skillful soft touch replaced by the swing of a folding chair—reason is routinely drowned out by the loudest voices in the room.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

He had a skillful worker in wood make a huge wooden horse which was hollow and so big that it could hold a number of men.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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