skill
/skɪl/ noun A1- A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate. · Where did you pick up that skill?· With great skill, she navigated through the tricky passage.
- A reusable configuration (prompt) that defines how an AI agent performs a specific task.
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My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.
She seems to have a skill and presence of mind perfectly wonderful in a child of her age.
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.
The curtain rose on the ballet, which was one of those excellent specimens of the Italian school, admirably arranged and put on the stage by Henri, who has established for himself a great reputation throughout Italy for his taste and skill in the choreographic art—one of those masterly productions of grace, method, and elegance in which the whole corps de ballet, from the principal dancers to the humblest supernumerary, are all engaged on the stage at the same time; and a hundred and fifty persons may be seen exhibiting the same attitude, or elevating the same arm or leg with a simultaneous movement, that would lead you to suppose that but one mind, one act of volition, influenced the moving mass.
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