• Social media tools are particularly adept a knocking down barriers between people and departments, just what the doctor ordered for this profession.

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  • The wider the range, the more adept a chip is at detecting and capturing detail in both bright and dark corners of a scene.

    FORBES: Sensitive Sensor

  • Her fingers flew so fast on the controller that she left both Bach and the audience completely lost, struck by how much more technologically adept a kid could be than a conference room full of techies.

    FORBES: CES 2009

  • It would need to be every bit as adept in a Syracuse winter as it would be comfortable in a Phoenix summer.

    CNN: A reality check on Tesla

  • The shop, where you will no longer find any Noguera art, is where inmates usually sell their humble and adept creations to a curious general public.

    FORBES: The Mastery of The Escape Artist

  • Leader-directors are adept at keeping a large "cast" focused on the company's common goal, learning how people influence each other and how hidden preconceptions can block change.

    CNN: Meet the manager-as-performer

  • According to the company, the scanner's equally adept at creating a detailed 3D model of a crime scene as it is of a movie set and, what's more, it can be done in only two minutes.

    ENGADGET: Industrial Research creates 3D crime scene/movie set scanner

  • According to Lorcan Otway, director of the Museum of the American Gangster in New York, Capone was adept at creating a public image that captured the imagination of Americans, a feat helped greatly by new media outlets of the time.

    CNN: Al Capone's revolver sells for over $100,000

  • All-in-all, if you don't mind the relatively pokey processor and integrated graphics, and are fairly adept at navigating a computer using just the pointing nub, then the nc2400 seems like a pretty good way to shave some pounds from your travel gear.

    ENGADGET: HP's Compaq nc2400 ultraportable notebook reviewed

  • Holmes, a techno-adept detective working in New York, whips out a Surface to do some quick research.

    ENGADGET: Editorial: Microsoft is singing the right tune with some wrong notes

  • One of them, as Stephanie Flanders has pointed out, may be that the UK has a political system that is more adept at making tough decisions in a crisis and then implementing them - and some would argue that's been proved to be true even when our first-past-the-post system delivers a coalition government.

    BBC: Why investors love lending to the UK government

  • "Wildlife will be impacted, but they are pretty adept at dealing with a topsy-turvy world, " he said.

    CNN: Massive ice shelf on verge of breakup

  • "Wildlife will be impacted, but they are pretty adept at dealing with a topsy-turvy world, " said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

    CNN: Ice shelf collapse: What does it mean?

  • Gray was simply a very adept inventor.

    NEWYORKER: In the Air

  • In 1983-84 only 39.2% of 17-year-olds were found to be "adept, " or at a level appropriate for their age, in reading--a smaller proportion than went on to college.

    FORBES: Are We Spending Too Much On Education?

  • Other slick features include the ability to send an address to the device from a home PC using the "Send2Dash" feature and, of interest to a more technically adept crowd, the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds of locations.

    ENGADGET: Switched On: Dash delivers open roads, open questions (Part 1)

  • Jimmy Carter was president when LaPierre first went to work for the NRA in 1977, and for the past 22 years LaPierre has been the organization's executive vice president, steering it through a transformation from a clubby marksmanship group into a political movement adept at beating back efforts to tighten firearms regulations.

    NPR: NRA's LaPierre: Wonk With Million-Dollar Megaphone

  • Seventeen months into her tenure, this scion of a powerful French family has shown herself adept at fending off outside pressure, at the same time as remoulding a holding group into something more streamlined.

    ECONOMIST: The fizz biz

  • The cultural psychologist Barbara Rogoff studied this kind of informal education in a Guatemalan Indian society, where she found that apprenticeship allowed even young children to become adept at difficult and dangerous tasks like using a machete.

    WSJ: What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

  • What Silverman has proved adept at is cutting costs, a skill that no doubt pleases the network's tight-fisted corporate parent General Electric.

    FORBES: Network Television

  • He's been a senior civil servant in several departments since 1997 and is seen as a good operator and adept at getting close to ministers.

    BBC: The hunt for a new 'Sir Humphrey'

  • It may be that governments were adept at getting us out of a serious crisis once it hit, but where are the signs they are even trying to prevent the next one?

    FORBES: Great Depression Part Deux Averted But Bubble Machine Still Blows

  • Authors have a larger opportunity that I believe will quickly expand to include popular personalities and thought leaders with a large and avid constituency and a partnership with an adept writer, if necessary.

    FORBES: What Role Will Your Company Play in Disruptive Video?

  • Within the last two years young people have become adept at using the Internet as a tool to obtain information on everything from the lowest price for a popular CD to information about various colleges and universities.

    UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

  • They get their benefit in cash each week, and while they are often highly adept at managing to operate on a low income over seven days, they may not have a bank account or access to the internet.

    BBC: Welfare reform and not paying the rent

  • And Andrew Irvine, 22, a virtual novice, was adept at maintaining the unreliable oxygen apparatus.

    ECONOMIST: Madness and its men

  • Across EMEA there is a whole network of highly adept and specialised partners who can be your guide on this path.

    FORBES: Are Technology Providers Clouding Your View of Business?

  • Two common gut bacteria, Escherichia coli and Helicobacter pylori, and also the influenza-A virus, are particularly adept at playing the evasive game of molecular mimicry, and the team is now looking at possible connections between different gut bacteria and autoantibodies against melanocortins to see if they can pin down which, if any, of these bugs might be responsible.

    ECONOMIST: Psychiatric disorders and immunity

  • It tells a reliable story: Chris Farraday (Wahlberg), once the most adept smuggler in the world, bursts out of retirement in order to pay off a debt incurred by the stupid kid brother (Caleb Landry Jones) of his loving wife (Kate Beckinsale).

    NEWYORKER: Flesh and Fantasy

  • In a BYOD age, we are adept at solving our own tech issues using Google, user forum or pal.

    FORBES: Connecting marketers to the Forbes audience. What is this?

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