people skills
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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As someone who struggles with people skills, he said for a while he felt like the chatbots made up for his lack of friends.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
Career counselors are advising young adults to sharpen their people skills, develop AI expertise and be ready to pivot in a fast-shifting labor market.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025
The youth organization has its members sell the cookies to learn people skills and how to manage money.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
We know that Edward is a genius because we’re told he is; because he spends every spare moment scribbling equations on any available surface; and because he has poor people skills.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2025
Raymond drops me off with Paul, a thick-armed blond guy who is, compared with Roberta, painfully short of people skills.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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