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skills

  • plural
    of skill.
    skill
    noun
    the ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well.

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Not especially keen swimmers, they used their mousing skills to secure passage on world-traveling ships piloted by merchants and explorers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Croick and Dieffenbach worked via Zoom to study schemes, installations and the skills it took to play under center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

He described it as an "investment in Rwanda's future" that would bring "jobs, skills, tourism and new business to our country and our region for decades to come".

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The document, prepared for the Las Vegas Raiders as part of a coaching search, attempts to sum up Flores’s skills in candid, and sometimes controversial, terms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

There was no sugarcoating the fact that Dad’s skills in the kitchen were the equivalent of mine at keeping a clean room.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas