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Six example sentences with deft, each labelled with its topic.
One deft turn of the wrist folds the omelette without tearing it, and the whole thing takes eleven seconds.
Cooking
The surgeon was so deft with the needle driver that the closure took under four minutes from first stitch.
Medicine
Her deft fingering across the fretboard makes a passage sound easy that most students spend a year failing.
Music
The point guard's deft bounce pass threaded between two defenders and arrived exactly at the center's hip.
Basketball
A few deft strokes of the brush suggested the whole bird, and the calligrapher set the pen down.
Art
Speedrunners rely on deft thumb movements to chain inputs that most players cannot even see on the screen.
Gaming
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