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Adjective
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The OptiPlex 7020 is one in its nearly endless line of business towers, and this one has a surprisingly adroit loadout in terms of components.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 July 2025 -
SpaceX is the implied template: Musk will advocate for privatizing the government, outsourcing the affairs of state to nimble entrepreneurs and adroit technologists.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Cleaning looked mundane compared with dexterous manipulation.—
Ashis Ghosh,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Making a hand that is as dexterous as a human one is one of the biggest challenges in robotics.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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The company’s deft choreography of solos and ensemble passages allows the performers, each representing a different tribal tradition (Navajo, Cree, Pueblo, Seneca, and Lakota), to stand as both distinct and part of a harmonious whole.—
Shauna Lyon,
New Yorker,
15 Aug. 2025
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Apex investor and board member Ross Fubini, founder of the venture capital firm XYZ, who previously backed Cinnamon at Synapse, said he’s been impressed by the young entrepreneur’s deft triangulation of a complicated market.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The result was an acrobatic volley that arrowed into the top corner.—
Max Mathews,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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Laila’s Saturday lineup included acrobatic artist Ambers Camp and belly dancing from Bayati and Kim.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This led Liu to wonder if these pliant electronics might keep up with the mutable nature of embryonic brains.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 June 2025
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These moves give China not only privileged access to economic assets but also political leverage over a pliant neighbor within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), tightening its grip on a region central to its ambitions.—
Ye Myo Hein,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Light-fingered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/light-fingered. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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