Example Sentences

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Completing the roster of operatives who are at least temporarily out in the cold, Fiona Shaw’s ultracompetent Carolyn has been busted down from MI6 desk head to British cultural attaché in Mallorca.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2022

Misty is fantastic and terrifying and tragic and ultracompetent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2022

Though I come from Ohio, these were the same kind of jokey, hard-drinking and ultracompetent working-class people I grew up with and respected.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2021

Above all, in “Old Rough and Ready” Taylor — who wore casual civilian clothes even when leading his army — Grant found a model for the kind of unassuming, ultracompetent general he himself would become.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2018

Both ultracompetent and physically a little dumpy, Pirie “was, she knew, the kind of woman men either dismissed or treated like the sister they were slightly intimidated by. Only Phil had ever seen past that.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2018