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How to use the word ADEPT in a Sentence?

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I think to a very large degree that more conservative forces have been very, very adept at framing the issues of homelessness and of crime so that the discussion about... how to respond to those two issues is very, very narrow.

Los Angeles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Drug organizations … are much more adept at changing than the government is.

Victor Manjarrez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We do have technology, this is technology that we didn't used to have, so we're getting some of that from our headquarters component and we're really thankful for their investment in The Big Bend Sector, we're always going to need a little bit more manpower, but we're adept in this sector of doing what we have to do to make things happen.

Sean McGoffin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Don't let the' grandmother with the scarves' persona fool Jared Kushner. She is a phenomenal and adept politician, she has lasted this long in no small part due to her bureaucratic maneuvering. This isn't just about what she knows about disease, or her experience. This is a shrewd and deft political veteran.

State Department

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I've become adept at persuading - read 'bribing' - the children to vacate 'work HQ' when I jump on client or other confidential calls.

Dominic Epton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Every missile they've flight-tested in 2019 to date has used a solid rocket motor and they're clearly becoming more adept at casting these motors in different diameters, there are challenges associated with moving to ICBM-sized SRMs, but perhaps North Korea will demonstrate a breakthrough on that front.

Ankit Panda

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the last seven to eight years self storage companies have become very adept at marketing online, people can't afford a home and need to downsize. You have stuff and need to store that stuff.

Bob Zenouzi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Concealed carry only works for people that are very adept at carrying a gun, where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them, go for special training and they would be there and you would no longer have a gun free zone.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It takes five to eight minutes for first responders. So the attack is over. If you had a teacher who was adept at firearms, they could very well end [the attack], we are looking at that very strongly. A lot of people will be opposed to it. A lot of people are gonna like it.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The internet has definitely made people more adept at using and reading pictures, the amount that is being dumped online ... is a revolution in access, which inevitably expands your way of thinking about the world visually.

Walther Collection curator Brian Wallis

Found on CNN
6 years ago

These groups are very adept at this 'come and join this movement, be part of this' rhetoric to draw in young people who have lost a sense of purpose and belonging during the war.

Rebecca Crozier

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The ones who come out of SkyAngels are pretty adept to handle it, even early in their careers.

Steffany Kisling

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Sometimes I’m glad flight attendants deal with those passengers, and I can hide in the cockpit, the ones who come out of SkyAngels are pretty adept to handle it, even early in their careers.

Gary Davis

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I am not adept at social media, i have a long record of working with diverse people. And anything you are reporting on does not reflect anything on Mr. Trump or Mr. Trump's campaign. I would also point out that all of these things were done before Mr. Trump's campaign, if I even did them — which I deny. In any event, this is the problem with politics ... Politics as usual is wrong.

Sam Nunberg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He (Sanders) said he was unimportant and it was all about the movement, and then it kind of escalated. ‘If you don’t support the movement, I don’t want your vote'... Obviously he’s become more adept at cultivating voters.” - New York Times, 7/3/15

Greg Guma

added by anonymous
8 years ago

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