as in proficiency
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great ability or skill shown by a musician, performer, etc.
Her virtuosity on the piano is amazing.
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Recent Examples of virtuosity
Hiaasen’s skill as a writer lies less in the virtuosity of his sentence-level prose than in the exuberant strangeness of his plots and the inner lives of the people who inhabit them.
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Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
The restoration’s selection for Cannes Classics represents a fitting homecoming for a film widely considered one of the greatest action movies ever made, finally allowing new audiences to experience Woo’s balletic violence and technical virtuosity on the big screen as originally intended.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2025
Most of the film plays out in something close to real time, and the directors, loath to hurry scenes along, slow the action down with a technical virtuosity that sometimes tilts into self-admiration.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
Snook’s virtuosity is such that all three, whether live or recorded or both at once, are convincing and compelling, at least in the first of the play’s two hours.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
The restoration’s selection for Cannes Classics represents a fitting homecoming for a film widely considered one of the greatest action movies ever made, finally allowing new audiences to experience Woo’s balletic violence and technical virtuosity on the big screen as originally intended.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2025
Most of the film plays out in something close to real time, and the directors, loath to hurry scenes along, slow the action down with a technical virtuosity that sometimes tilts into self-admiration.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
Snook’s virtuosity is such that all three, whether live or recorded or both at once, are convincing and compelling, at least in the first of the play’s two hours.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for virtuosity
proficiency
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Schools will be required to provide early intervention for K-8 students at-risk of not meeting grade level proficiency.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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Maybe letting users make lists is less about an accrual of cultural proficiency and more about extending empathy to the poor celebs who put their own taste on the line.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
24 June 2025
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