as in skill
subtle or imaginative ability in inventing, devising, or executing something
his adeptness at thinking on his feet makes him a formidable debater
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Recent Examples of adeptness
Like online interactions, cryptocurrency moves with a speed and adeptness of its own, creating its own unique forms of language, pace, and tone.
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Malana Vantyler, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Jan. 2026
To combat this takes a special degree of innovation and adeptness, but fortunately, The Links Guy has proven more than capable of living up to the challenge.
—Maria Williams, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
Davies’s adeptness at verbal wit and aching melancholy are on grand display throughout The House of Mirth, one of his greatest films.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
Malana Vantyler, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Jan. 2026
To combat this takes a special degree of innovation and adeptness, but fortunately, The Links Guy has proven more than capable of living up to the challenge.
—Maria Williams, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
Davies’s adeptness at verbal wit and aching melancholy are on grand display throughout The House of Mirth, one of his greatest films.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adeptness
skill
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Using skills, Codex can pull design assets from Figma, manage bug tracking and releases in Linear, deploy applications to cloud platforms such as Vercel and Cloudflare, and generate images using OpenAI’s image model.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Kate had changed her hair into a stylish bob — but apparently hadn’t updated her mothering skills — two years later when, in the sequel, Kevin again was discovered missing, at the Miami airport.—
Jocelyn Noveck,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Adeptness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adeptness. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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