Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...naive, almost touching, this idea that modern parents have such financial power and moral authority over their children that they can keep the little ones from seeing a forbidden film, especially when kids usually go to the movies on their own, and are adept at buying tickets for a PG-rated picture and then sneaking into an R-rated...
...their sect), modern Iran observers sometimes draw the conclusion that Iranians have inherited a disposition for lying. As with invoking taarof to explain Iranian behavior, this line of thinking focuses on the process of communications instead of their content. Besides, does anyone truly believe Sunni politicians are less adept at dishonesty...
...What happens in the Aug. 8 runoff hinges on the extent to which each camp can reverse that apathy and energize its voter base. While McKinney is an adept grassroots organizer, analysts say, her vulnerability may also motivate her detractors...
...particularly adept at stealing time between events, such as on the way to work or the way home from school. We stretch our pit stops into rest stops. We grab 20 min. of tranquillity at Starbucks. Stuck in traffic, we call an old college friend and chitchat...
...failure to behave with the maturity and responsibility expected” of Harvard students.Not all students felt pressure from the law—many who used their cars infrequently left their autos across the river at the Business School. And the system could be circumvented, with some students increasingly adept at finding spots near the Houses. “I learned which streets near my house (Lowell) or near the Crimson got ‘loose’ at what hours on what days,” David Royce ’56, who is a former Crimson editor, writes...