positional
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Even when the formal training ramped up, they developed individual skills before narrowing their focus to positional expertise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The passing, the possession, the positional intelligence: these are technical qualities but social ones too.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
To investigate the idea, the researchers developed what they describe as a "lineage-based model of scalable positional information."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
It can only be used for positional offside and not for subjective calls, those which require interpretation around whether a player has interfered with an opponent without touching the ball.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Without a positional notation system, arithmetic is tedious and hard, as schoolchildren learn when teachers force them to multiply or subtract with Roman numerals.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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