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noun

expertise

skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge

In a sentence

Six example sentences with expertise, each labelled with its topic.

  • Lighting a glass bottle without reflections takes expertise that no preset can supply, and she spent years acquiring it.

    Photography

  • The firm bought the smaller studio purely for its expertise in packaging, keeping all nine designers on the payroll.

    Business

  • Reading a heart trace correctly demands expertise built over thousands of shifts, and no checklist can substitute for it.

    Medicine

  • Valuing a family firm takes expertise that spreadsheets alone cannot supply, since half the assets are relationships nobody wrote down.

    Finance

  • Tempering chocolate by hand takes real expertise, and the shine on her bars comes from years of ruined batches.

    Cooking

  • Restoring a timber roof demands expertise in old joinery, so the practice hired a carpenter who had never used a computer.

    Architecture

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