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As Powell — one of Capitol Hill’s most adroit navigators — made his rounds, Republicans on both sides of the Capitol panned the investigation.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
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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
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Designed as a safe, autonomous, and highly generalizable system, MATRIX-3 combines biomimetic sensing, dexterous manipulation, natural human-like movement, and a new cognitive core capable of zero-shot learning.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Jan. 2026
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Evolution is part of the answer to why chimpanzees have such dexterous toes while ours seem much more clumsy.—
Steven Lautzenheiser,
The Conversation,
8 Dec. 2025
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Jimmy Butler used his smarts and muscle to carve out space for tricky shots and deft passes.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
12 Jan. 2026
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This is pure, unsullied Sicily at its best before even the Ancient Greeks got their deft hands on the island.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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Among the 150 friends enjoying the feast and acrobatic dancers were Suzanne and Woody Johnson, owners of the New York Jets; Dana and Robert Kraft, who owns the New England Patriots; and Lynne and Steve Ross, owner of the Miami Dolphins.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Heckel added an acrobatic layup at the buzzer to push the Huskies to a 21-14 lead.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
11 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement Rodríguez was not immediately pliant.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
5 Jan. 2026
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Its root system is aggressive, shallow, and rather pliant, which makes the tree very unstable.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Light-fingered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/light-fingered. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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