Adept in a sentence as a noun

Nest is very adept at charging large amounts of money for solutions to small problems.

Mr. Bezos has some of that same flair and, when combined with adept entrepreneurial skills, stands to make an amazing mark in the annals of commerce.

He's also a genuinely thoughtful and nice guy, and very adept at explaining why he holds the positions he does.

Otherwise, you likely end up in a price race, where either the largest contractor or the most ill-adept at bidding will win.

In fact, many men are adept at understanding social and emotional subtexts very well.

There is always going to be a subset of people who are adept at finding ways around promotions and special offers, or the systems meant to regulate them.

Adept in a sentence as an adjective

If you're doing the job right the 10 people within the NSA who are politically adept and technically competent should be in jail for child pornography by this time next year.

As a researcher studying evolutionary algorithms, one thing these algorithms are quite adept at is finding holes in the objective functions you give to them.

He was miserable because, in spite of his extreme intelligence and adept writing, he had no real influence in a world run by corrupt corporate institutions.

It's not that they're "good" at making those calls, but that the companies are so complex and unusual that almost no one is, and they're the most adept at figuring out what's going on amid the chaos.

The early adopters of services like Facebook and Twitter are smart, curious, technologically-adept people like HN posters.

Except that I would further increase the percentage - up to 50% or even 100%.It's very simple: citizens go to jail, companies can't; so we have to make them pay, a lot. When fines are a fixed amount, the corporations have to simply earn more by committing the crime than they would have to pay if caught; banks are very adept at playing this game.

Adept definitions

noun

someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

adjective

having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching"

See also: expert good practiced proficient skillful skilful