fluently
Americanadverb
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smoothly, relatively rapidly, and easily, with few or no errors.
Herbert Hoover moved his family to China before becoming president, and he and his wife learned to speak Mandarin Chinese fluently.
I can type as fluently as Rubenstein played the piano.
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with easy and graceful motion or with smooth, natural transitions.
Her small yet strong body moved fluently through the woods as if part of it.
Moving fluently from personal to public history, his poetry has been acclaimed for both its candor and its authority.
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The strongest associations appeared in frontotemporal regions of the brain involved in recognizing words, speaking fluently, and temporarily holding language information in mind.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
She speaks Spanish fluently and has working knowledge of Portuguese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Trier: One of the biggest challenges of this film was finding someone to play Renate’s younger sister who could match her level of performance, looked like her and spoke Norwegian fluently.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Off court he is urbane and thoughtful, and able to speak fluently in a number of languages.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
“Yakov told me once that he had studied Russian until he could speak it fluently without an accent,” I said, thinking of the bitter pride in Yakov’s voice when he had told me that.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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