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ambidextrous

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Definition having the ability to use either hand with equal ease
  • Most people are right-handed, but about 10% are left-handed and about 1% are ambidextrous.
ambidextrous = have the ability to use either hand with equal ease
  • The ambidextrous point guard can dribble the basketball equally well with either hand.
  • ambidextrous = having the ability to use either hand with equal ease
  • She taught herself to be ambidextrous.
  • ambidextrous = with the ability to use either hand with equal ease
  • The surgeon is ambidextrous.
  • ambidextrous = having the ability to use either hand with equal ease
  • About your writing with your left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?
    Harper Lee  --  To Kill a Mockingbird
  • ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease
  • His enemy, being ambidextrous, cast both spears at once and failed.
    Homer  --  The Iliad
  • ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease
  • Reporters wanted to know more about this eighty-pound ambidextrous phenom.
    W. William Winokur  --  The Perfect Game
  • ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease
  • He's become ambidextrous, can fight off both sides with nearly equal skill.
    David Baldacci  --  Zero Day
  • ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease
  • But never did, because try as he might, he just wasn't ambidextrous.
    John Green  --  An Abundance of Katherines
  • ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease
  • Are you ambidextrous?
    Christopher Paolini  --  Eldest
  • ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease
  • He's ambidextrous.
    Marie Lu  --  Legend
  • ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease
  • I'm ambidextrous.
    Sherman Alexie  --  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
  • ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease
  • I'll never forget the pitcher; his name was Angel Macias and he was ambidextrous.
    W. William Winokur  --  The Perfect Game
  • ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease
  • Ambidextrous at the plate as well as the mound, Angel clobbers one lefty.
    W. William Winokur  --  The Perfect Game
  • ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease
  • "Almost like he had been ambidextrous and didn't know it," says Jack Elliot, an armorer who helped maintain weapons for the SEALs.
    Eric Blehm  --  Fearless
  • ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease
  • But in shutting out the heavily favored team from Owensboro, Angel, the ambidextrous pitcher from Colonia Cantu, had come unimaginably close to achieving a pitcher's crowning achievement.
    W. William Winokur  --  The Perfect Game
ambidextrous = capable of using either hand with equal ease

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