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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It answers confidently, fluently, in complete sentences, with the tone of someone who knows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
"People assume that if you can speak fluently, you don't experience communication challenges," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
Off court he is urbane and thoughtful, and able to speak fluently in a number of languages.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
This year and beyond, they need to quickly learn to speak moral language fluently — and with conviction.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026
He began asking questions and I could hear myself replying fluently, though inside I was reeling with swiftly changing emotional images that shrilled and chattered, like a sound-track reversed at high speed.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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