Examples of adept

• He is adept at communicating, using a mixture of single-word utterances and pantomime.

• Partisanship is a meaningful identification for nearly all citizens, while a much lower proportion of the public is ideologically adept.

• She is also adept at including herself within the events, an ethnographic conundrum that she finesses well.

• When political circumstances change - or when leaders become less adept at managing their parties - their powers contract.

• Although whiggism was empty of substance, its devotees were adept in those forensic skills which were highly rated in parliamentary politics.

• Because they represent powerful factions in the party, are crucial political or personal allies of the prime minister or simply seen as potentially adept ministers.

• He is a notoriously skilled interrogatee, adept at turning questions to his advantage while appearing to be dutifully responsive.

• It is true that dream consciousness is very adept at simulating threatening events.