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With his high school career over at Fort Worth Christian, the nation’s consensus top prep baseball prospect, Grady Emerson, has been focused on staying in shape by mixing in speed, agility, strength and hitting work.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 June 2026 -
The robot dog Inspired by the agility and balance of dogs, Spot has become one of the world’s most recognizable robots.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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Rather than chasing growth, businesses across a range of industries should pursue nimbleness.—
Richard McCathron,
Fortune,
25 May 2026
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Defensively, Norby has made a solid transition to first, committing two errors and showing nimbleness at the position.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
3 May 2026
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That number has become an industry benchmark, shorthand for human-level dexterity.—
John Koetsier,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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There was a twinge of disruption, because Alexander Zverev (29) and Daniil Medvedev (30) introduced a blend of unreturnable serving and baseline dexterity that briefly forced even the Big Three to patch their software.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
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Learner Tien, with guidance from 1989 French Open champion Michael Chang, has the kind of game — sweeping, angled groundstrokes and deftness of touch — that should suit clay, but he is still getting used to its secret codes.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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The term implies godlike deftness and speed but also a certain impersonal coldness — skill at the expense of passion.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2026
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A lot of staff have worked at other Luxury Lodges, and exude the finesse of career hospitality staff.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Bond's relative lack of experience and finesse also feeds into the chaos of all-out brawls.—
Jordan Minor,
PC Magazine,
29 May 2026
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The paint is deftly mottled but its handling lacks the prowess of her later work (see, for example, Being Beamed, 1984, a fantasia of extraterrestrial teleportation in which the watercolor is sumptuous but perfectly controlled).—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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For America, saving the structures that defined the country’s prowess in innovation, experimentation, and ingenuity means looking to a relatively recent past.—
Time,
Time,
2 June 2026
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“Sure-footedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sure-footedness. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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