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in a skillful or expert manner
skillfully guided the powerboat around the obstacles
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Recent Examples of skillfully
Managing conflicts skillfully today can lay the foundation for deeper resilience, better processes and more innovative thinking down the road.
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Will Fan, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Hill and Giler skillfully avoid virtually every sports movie cliché while still delivering the genre’s rousing satisfactions — this is a spectacularly fun movie in spite of its often grim subject matter.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2025
Food and Drink The main restaurant at One Aldwych is Indigo, which has a creative menu that skillfully highlights British dishes and produce.
—Samantha Brash, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2025
The demo began with the arm-hand duo skillfully handling a spoon, replicating natural human motion.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
Ellison, not unlike Sumner Redstone, has skillfully parlayed his Skydance Media into the vehicle to acquire a much larger concern.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Aug. 2025
Roc is at his best skillfully weaving internal and external rhymes together, crafting scenes of his charmed life as an indomitable hustler who can’t be shown up, intimidated, or outrhymed.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2025
Details do count for everything here, and Lojkine deploys them skillfully, with an eye toward immersing us in his protagonist’s gruelling everyday routine.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2025
Photos and video on social media showed passengers clinging onto gates at the the 7th Avenue subway stop in Brooklyn on Thursday evening to skillfully maneuver around murky water that filled the station entrance.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 1 Aug. 2025
Will Fan, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Hill and Giler skillfully avoid virtually every sports movie cliché while still delivering the genre’s rousing satisfactions — this is a spectacularly fun movie in spite of its often grim subject matter.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2025
Food and Drink The main restaurant at One Aldwych is Indigo, which has a creative menu that skillfully highlights British dishes and produce.
—Samantha Brash, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2025
The demo began with the arm-hand duo skillfully handling a spoon, replicating natural human motion.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
Ellison, not unlike Sumner Redstone, has skillfully parlayed his Skydance Media into the vehicle to acquire a much larger concern.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Aug. 2025
Roc is at his best skillfully weaving internal and external rhymes together, crafting scenes of his charmed life as an indomitable hustler who can’t be shown up, intimidated, or outrhymed.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2025
Details do count for everything here, and Lojkine deploys them skillfully, with an eye toward immersing us in his protagonist’s gruelling everyday routine.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2025
Photos and video on social media showed passengers clinging onto gates at the the 7th Avenue subway stop in Brooklyn on Thursday evening to skillfully maneuver around murky water that filled the station entrance.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 1 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skillfully
Adverb
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The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer's unsettling historical drama masterfully employs sound — which earned it an Oscar in 2024 — and what remains unseen to depict the horrors of the Holocaust.—
Charlotte Walsh,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Keen-eyed viewers will spot bits of the city's culture and history masterfully weaved into the entire show, from paintings on the walls by local artists to filming locations to its needle drops.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Miller often called well into the evening, Dudek said, to chastise him about anything the press had reported that day that had caught the administration off guard.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
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Natural fabrics like cotton and wool, however, are best left to the pros.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Even if it’s artfully made and grippingly acted — 9m88 and Chiu are convincing as two of the meanest parents ever seen in an arthouse movie — Girl can be a tedious exercise to sit through, especially in its early sections.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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Gastón Solnicki’s latest work features a magnetic central performance from Willem Dafoe, it is artfully composed with painterly images, shots of Vienna at sunset are exquisite, and its spartan dialogue possesses a dry wit.—
Leila Latif,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The Netherlands international performed capably in the middle of the back three, flanked by Luke Shaw on the left and Leny Yoro to his right.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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Rocky capably steps up to Washington’s loose but intense actorly flow, and contributes a great song too.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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That opened up a shooting chance, which Wolff finished expertly.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2025
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This pattern was expertly observed by Amorim during his first press conference.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Riefenstahl deftly undertakes the type of media autopsy usually reserved for the most fiendish of true crime cover-ups.—
Daniel Jonah Wolpert,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025
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And the film turns into a deftly layered and at moments nearly philosophical head-spinner.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This little case keeps rings, necklaces, and earrings neatly tucked away, so nothing gets tangled—or worse, left behind.—
Kayla Kitts,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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Despite the glossy subject matter, Winocour neatly sidesteps clichés, instead searching for quiet moments that give the story emotional resonance.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
5 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Skillfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skillfully. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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