habile

Definition of habilenext

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Adjective
  • The move comes as many companies are increasingly looking to agents — AI capable of taking on and executing relatively complex tasks — as a way to boost employee productivity and automate rote chores.
    Jared Perlo, NBC news, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Such a high-data future requires infrastructure capable of handling it.
    Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The numbers also highlight how Safonov is making cross claims or sweeping outside his box more than twice the rate Chevalier is, although the Frenchman is more adept with his feet, playing more passes, completing a higher rate.
    Tom Burrows, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Different power plants have different beneficial attributes, and nuclear power plants are especially adept at meeting round the clock demand.
    Paige Lambermont, Oc Register, 26 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • This episode is a showcase for Aleida’s unapologetic, highly skilled direct communications style.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • Effective programs have shown a significant impact in building engineering pipelines, resulting in high numbers of full-time, highly skilled hires.
    Mike Kelleher, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The Pistons were only able to make 6-of-30 threes in Game 4 and the Magic continued to frustrate Detroit star Cade Cunningham.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • For the past few years, large consumer goods companies were able to push through price increases with limited resistance.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • This country has produced leaders who understood that the office was never about them, that service means something, and that the people watching from home deserve better than a system that rewards the skillful exit over the honest reckoning.
    Nick Weston, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
  • Miami coach Mario Cristobal is known for his skillful recruiting of top prospects.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Just 9 percent of Black and 6 percent of Latino eighth graders were proficient in math; just one in one hundred of either group was advanced.
    Steven F. Wilson, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Cuevas has been a more proficient blocker than pass catcher at his three college stops — Cal Poly, Washington and Alabama.
    ABC News, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Based on the popular 1960s spy sitcom, this weak adaptation casts Steve Carell as a bumbling secret agent, with Hathaway as his more competent partner and developing love interest.
    Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • The court will accept the pleas, find them knowingly and voluntarily made with the assistance of competent counsel.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • That the decade’s anniversary is considered worth marking indicates that Bowie’s standing remains undiminished, with an end that came only two days after the release of his final album, the masterly Blackstar.
    Alexander Larman, Time, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The last redoubt was the masterly Structure 27.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Habile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habile. Accessed 3 May. 2026.

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