Sample Sentences for
adept
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    Clapp, though, did this for a living and was adept at extracting information.  (source)
    adept = skilled
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    Both methods had their uses, he decided, but he was faster and more adept with the needle.  (source)
    adept = skillful
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    For as a people, we Russians have proven unusually adept at destroying that which we have created.  (source)
    adept = skilled
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    By the time he had been at Command School for a year, he was adept at running the simulator at any of fifteen levels, from controlling an individual fighter to commanding a fleet.  (source)
    adept = skilled
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    'Don't let it worry you, Scheisskopf,' said General Peckem, congratulating himself on how adeptly he had fit Colonel Scheisskopf into his standard method of operation.†  (source)
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    And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unadept means not and reverses the meaning of adept. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The little boy whimpered, and Hema rocked him with an adeptness she didn't know she possessed.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    They set up a "University of Thievery," in which "professors"—the most adept thieves—taught the art of stealing.  (source)
    adept = skillful
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    Requirements include at least fourteen years' experience as a certified child prodigy, ability to anagram adeptly (and alliterate agilely), fluency in eleven languages.†  (source)
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    An African American woman, she was adept even in environments where her gender or race made her an outsider.  (source)
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    Hans Castorp looked down at his own still awkward hands and sensed stored within them the possibility that one day he would hold and use his knife and fork as adeptly as his grandfather.†  (source)
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    She was also surprisingly adept at speaking without moving her lips.  (source)
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    Wenzel the Czech, who toward the end had provided a little change of pace by shutting off the gramophone and plunking his mandolin quite adeptly, now laid his instrument down.†  (source)
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