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Adjective
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Today, especially for digitally adroit customers, opening a new account with a neobank offering a better APR is seamless.—
Nigel Morris,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2026 -
As adroit Mercury starts reversing through your contemplative 12th house, its retrograde invites you to press pause on the cosmic movie in favor of reviewing what’s already happened.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2026
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Chinese robotics firm Xynova has unveiled its second-generation dexterous hand, aiming to improve humanoid robots’ ability to perform human-like manipulation tasks in real-world environments.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
20 May 2026
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Goats are famously fantastic climbers, and their dextrous hooves were the inspiration behind the grippy lugs on the Speedgoat 6 Sneakers.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
9 May 2026
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Club Kid is funny, and filled with deft jokes, but there’s a stylistic exuberance to it that attests to how Firstman wasn’t just thinking in terms of verbal punchlines.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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Berbatov scored 94 Premier League goals across spells at Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Fulham, and is a two-time Premier League and League Cup winner, yet his deft control became his trademark.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Then practice started, and his acrobatic catches began.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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The most impressive play of them all, though, was when third baseman Matt Chapman fought the wind and made an acrobatic grab in foul territory.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
17 May 2026
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Fennel, cumin, coriander and black pepper perfume sistani, another round flatbread with barley mixed into the wheat flour for a nutty taste and pliant crumb.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2026
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The resumption of relations comes just months after Washington ousted Venezuela’s former president and replaced him with a more pliant leader, and could unlock billions of dollars in financing for Caracas, analysts said.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Light-fingered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/light-fingered. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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