Sample Sentences for
proficiency
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    For the past four months I've had all my various board exams—math, science, oral and written proficiency, sociology and psychology and photography (a specialty elective) —and I should be getting my scores sometime in the next few weeks.  (source)
    proficiency = capability or skillfulness
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    He could only have hoped that it would occur to me that I needed a proficient but anonymous thief whose absence from the city wouldn't be noticed.  (source)
    proficient = skillful
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    With all the time I've spent in Peshawar, I've become pretty proficient in Urdu.  (source)
    proficient = capable
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    My verse continued to be technically proficient and dead as Huck Finn's cat.  (source)
    proficient = skillful
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    The ancient Buddhist art of meditative stretching seemed an odd proficiency for the physicist daughter of a Catholic priest.  (source)
    proficiency = skill
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    Why not subpoena as well the clerical proficients?†  (source)
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    In addition to their robes, all students wore magechains, silver necklaces whose weight and value increased as they attained various proficiencies.†  (source)
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    As I was marginally less proficient on a bicycle than I was at particle physics, this involved a lot of swearing and swerving on my part, and a lot of exasperated shouting on his.  (source)
    proficient = skillful
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    It was still strange to think of my complete proficiency at that age, the boy I'd been, the near man I was now.†  (source)
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    In the use of the globes both are proficients.†  (source)
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    Lurking in our limited gene pools may swim metastatic brain tumors and every type of depression and recessed cystic fibrosis, but also high IQs and proficiencies with Romance languages.†  (source)
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    Someone proficient in elemental magic?  (source)
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    Once the platoon workup was finished, Adam was cleared by Medical, having exhibited proficiency in SEAL tasks, but with the notation that he was doing so with limited vision in his dominant eye.†  (source)
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