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Definition
capable (able to do something in a generally satisfactory manner) — sometimes specifically to have legal capability
- Frankly, we don't think you're competent.Chapter 17 (16% in)
- Twenty minutes ago their trap fell apart; there's got to be confusion, recriminations, accusations of incompetency, or worse.Chapter 14 (3% in)
- Or incredibly incompetent.Chapter 16 (37% in)
- "Competent?" repeated Lavier, as if she did not believe what she had heard.Chapter 17 (16% in)
- The Republic was corrupt, the military incompetent, the Maginot a joke.Chapter 25 (30% in)
- I pay thousands-hundreds of thousands-for incompetence and failure.Chapter 25 (79% in)
There are no more uses of "competent" in The Bourne Identity.
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