Weili Dai

It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

Chinese Businesswoman

Lee Unkrich

I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing - editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.

American Director

Dawn Foster

Bullying leaves permanent psychological scarring and young people become adept at learning what hurts, verbally and psychologically. Looks, personality and status are all easy targets, and particularly difficult to change.

British Journalist

Mona Eltahawy

Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies.

Egyptian Journalist

Becki Newton

I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.

American Actress

Jon Voight

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

American Actor

Ann Reinking

I like meeting people from other walks of life and finding out about other worlds, and knowing that I'm fairly adept at one world and really stupid in many others.

David Perlmutter

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

American Scientist

Dominic Grieve

Most states, for all their rhetoric in favour of free trade, are adept at trying to manipulate markets to protect and advantage their own producers.

British Politician

David Shields

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

American Author

Adept has a positive tone, suggesting respect for someone's skills or proficiency.

Positive Connotation

Use 'adept' to compliment someone's ability in a specific skill or activity.

Complimentary Usage

Becoming adept takes time and practice; it shows a high level of skill development.

Skill Development

Calling someone an 'adept' shows a high level of respect for their professional capabilities.

Professional Respect

As a noun, 'adept' often signals singular expertise in a narrow field.

Singular Mastery

Use 'adept' as a noun in more formal or serious contexts to highlight someone's expertise.

Formal Recognition

 Flat surfaces behave one way, while positively and negatively curved surfaces display very different characteristics. At first these alternative geometries seemed strange, but were soon found to be equally adept at describing the world around us. Navigating our planet requires elliptical geometry while the much of the art of M.C. Escher displays hyperbolic geometry.

Euclid's puzzling...

 although I did notice that its calm exterior sometimes slipped and that it occasionally mirrored my own unexpressed emotion. So, for example, if I was angry and had to hide it, which I often did, being very adept at concealing how I really felt, then the voice would sound frustrated. Otherwise, it was neither sinister nor disturbing,

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 These are among the world's most admired, most beloved, most innovative companies. They also happen to be particularly adept at working the international tax system so as to lower their tax bill very, very significantly. And why stop at just playing the global political and economic system as it exists

Chrystia Freeland: The...

 Urban parents demand school vouchers. You may support these efforts or not. Whether you get what you want depends on how adept you are with power, which brings us finally to what you can do to become more powerful in public life. Here, it's useful to think in terms of literacy.

How to understand power...

 risks you know and seeing how how likely it is that you're gonna get killed by the immediate situation that's like immediate primordial assessing of risk but then there's more advanced part of the brain that evolved over time called the neocortex neocortex is adept at

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 What was amazing to me also was they seemed a lot more adept at getting a handle on our language than we were on getting a handle on theirs. I work with a lot of musicians from around the world, and often we don't have any common language at all,

The interspecies...

 But I do believe that in today's world, women experience power differently. Having had to navigate being in the less powerful position in multiple aspects of their lives, women are often more adept

How women wage conflict...

 powerful jaws and resistance to bacteria enable them to eat every bit of a carcass even bones they've even been known to raid graves but hyenas are actually adept pack hunters led by a

Hyenas Fight Leopard for...

 it might be a good idea to move on leopards are the most versatile of all the big cats adept at finding cover in the most unpromising places

Nail-Biting Leopard...

 Leopards are the most versatile of all the big cats, adept at finding cover in the most unpromising places.