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having a special ability to do something well; having talent
a highly talented athlete As a writer, she is enormously talented.
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Recent Examples of talented
Queiroz is confident his experience can help guide a team of talented players, many of whom also play in some of the biggest pro leagues in the world.
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Pj Green,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
But in the middle exists a vibrant tier of talented, independent creators, shows too good to be overlooked, yet too small to attract traditional network support.
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Frank Racioppi,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
That leaves Jarmo Kekalainen banking on Buffalo’s talented pipeline of youth to step up to build on a season in which the Sabres won their first Atlantic Division title and snapped a league-record 14-year playoff absence.
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ABC News,
2 July 2026
As for Vilmanis, the 22-year-old talented forward prospect impressed last season during his first taste of NHL action and with Latvia during the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2026
What an extraordinary, talented man who also showed great kindness and grace in every action.
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Samantha Highfill,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 July 2026
These are two young, talented, intelligent women that got elected against all odds, against millions of dollars.
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Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
1 July 2026
In the 2014 World Cup, in Brazil, Postecoglou’s Australia spooked a talented Chile in one match, and took the lead against the Netherlands in another.
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Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
1 July 2026
But relying solely on these connections can limit talented professionals.
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Andy Lopata,
Harvard Business Review,
1 July 2026
Pj Green,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
But in the middle exists a vibrant tier of talented, independent creators, shows too good to be overlooked, yet too small to attract traditional network support.
—
Frank Racioppi,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
That leaves Jarmo Kekalainen banking on Buffalo’s talented pipeline of youth to step up to build on a season in which the Sabres won their first Atlantic Division title and snapped a league-record 14-year playoff absence.
—
ABC News,
2 July 2026
As for Vilmanis, the 22-year-old talented forward prospect impressed last season during his first taste of NHL action and with Latvia during the 2026 Winter Olympics.
—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2026
What an extraordinary, talented man who also showed great kindness and grace in every action.
—
Samantha Highfill,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 July 2026
These are two young, talented, intelligent women that got elected against all odds, against millions of dollars.
—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
1 July 2026
In the 2014 World Cup, in Brazil, Postecoglou’s Australia spooked a talented Chile in one match, and took the lead against the Netherlands in another.
—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
1 July 2026
But relying solely on these connections can limit talented professionals.
—
Andy Lopata,
Harvard Business Review,
1 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for talented
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As the colonies moved toward independence in the name of liberty, one of America’s most gifted voices found her first audience across the Atlantic.
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The Breitling was reportedly gifted to him by his late father.
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The plebeians have plenty to be furious about, but their representatives, skilled at turning a crowd into a mob, seem hellbent on shoring up their own influence.
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It is stored in plain text in RAM and can theoretically be accessed by administrators, cloud operators, hypervisors, or highly skilled attackers through malware, insider threats, or side-channel attacks.
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There’s likely to be grasping, resisting, skillful and futile efforts to swim and worry about what’s up ahead.
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One of the few calls of the night was from Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault, ready to get his hands on the skillful point guard.
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With so many more girls proficient at flag football entering college age, the NAIA in 2020 was first to offer scholarships and implement logistics for the sport’s next phase.
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The percentage of proficient students in grades 3 to 10 language arts climbed from 57% last year to 61% this year, while math proficiency for grades 3 to 8 climbed from 59% to 62%.
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The anti-Trump rage, the surge of younger, more educated progressive voters, the hunger for someone willing to fight on affordability with policy, message, and tone, in Albany and Washington — all of it was hiding in plain sight for anyone looking at the data rather than the tired, old playbook.
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Also, the participants who volunteered for the study were generally healthier, more educated and more often female than the general French population, the researchers noted.
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After reducing engineering staff and relying more heavily on AI for portions of its design and development work, Ford found that the technology could not consistently match the expertise of experienced engineers.
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Adoptive parents can be single, married, or partnered; experienced or not; renters or homeowners; LGBTQ+ singles and couples.
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The installation was conceived by Imogen Speer, an accomplished San Francisco artist whose public work includes the Naga installation in Golden Gate Park.
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Widely regarded as one of the most accomplished international players, Valdemoro made her mark in the WNBA.
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“Talented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talented. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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