Fluency in the public language, like fluency in a second language, can be achieved with enough practice.
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They reasoned that, for these simple and fairly predictable stories, fluency should already be high, and spoilers would have no effect on enjoyment if fluency was truly at work.
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Working in the background, behavioral biometrics verify that online applications are being filled out by genuine users, not fraudsters, by testing for application fluency, navigational fluency and low data familiarity.
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Critics may say such language reveals boorish thinking or a limited vocabulary, but swearing is often impressively strategic, and a fluency in crass language typically correlates with verbal fluency in general.
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"While I certainly have an opportunity to immerse myself more inside those media businesses, I have a bit of fluency, just like my peers have some fluency in our business," Chapek said.
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Castro's fluency on immigration issues and shots at former Rep.
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That morning, she seemed to relish her new found fluency.
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The job requires fluency in deep learning and machine learning.
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There was no association of TV watching with semantic fluency.
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Few fighters had the barest fluency in every plane of fighting.
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George W. Bush (R), who was not known for his fluency.
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Without basic tech fluency, care of these individuals becomes more difficult.
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Another feature that makes Monzo different is their fluency in emoji.
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And when it comes to developing reading fluency, timing is important.
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So what can parents and teachers do to support fact fluency?
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K gang, and his fluency in a number of foreign languages.
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Star struck, it played within itself, its fluency strangled by anxiety.
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She made them cohere by her fluency and force of will.
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"cult," and ribbed me for lacking fluency in the Rand canon.
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CQ fluency helps companies working across languages to communicate and culturally connect.
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French students traditionally perform rather poorly in international ranking of English fluency.
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The internet version, to me, is sort of more my fluency. Right.
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But fluency requires much more, so consider the apps a starting point.
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How has the tech fluency among lawmakers changed, or not, over time?
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He described the idea of K11 to me with smooth, practiced fluency.
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The 87-year-old "Oracle of Omaha" did show fluency with Chinese culture.
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Sansa has more fluency in the ways of the North and the capital.
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He's been locked up before and possesses fluency in a prison's violent rhythms.
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First, to test fluency and ability, I read a paragraph about a dog.
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The most special moments in culture are those where fluency emerges from disfluency.
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The agents involved in the Rome raid, critics say, didn't demonstrate such fluency.
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She knew the case thoroughly, and had shown poise and fluency in court.
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But his playing often lacked the narrative fluency to draw the notes together.
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Despite this remarkable fluency in painting, within the social sphere, van Gogh struggled.
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She must communicate with her district's significant Hispanic population without fluency in Spanish.
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And in terms of the president's nonexistent moral fluency, it's a blown opportunity.
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In a moment of my own fluency, I told her that I stutter.
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There, she could use her Spanish fluency to help grow the company's business.
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You'll explore memorization tools, linguistic concepts, and free software that will ensure speedy fluency.
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But what's really impressive about GPT-22 is not its fluency but its flexibility.
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Both sides have made their arguments with passion and with force and with fluency.
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Slowly, his English is coming back, and he's starting to lose his Spanish fluency.
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Others have skills that natives lack, such as medical training or fluency in Mandarin.
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Even roles outside of R&D require a level of tech-fluency and knowledge.
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Only one test showed a slight summer advantage, and that was for verbal fluency.
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The application process requires physical tests and fluency in languages like English and Chinese.
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"Financial Fluency: How Women Thrive Outside of the 9 to 5" by Jenn Turell
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In New York — as in much of America, increasingly — religious fluency is not assumed.
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In her fluency on these subjects, a certain gulf opened between the two women.
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Free language learning apps often promise the world — but don't expect fluency from one.
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In Nigeria, the scammers are aided by plentiful internet access and fluency in English.
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The famed scientist Nikola Tesla also electrified others by his fluency in several languages.
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B-Boying has entered a new international phase, requiring equal fluency in all forms.
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I'm now 25, and I often use fluency techniques I learned in therapy including speaking slowly, blending one word into another and taking small breaths before speaking — and I even own the Fluency Master, a device hooked to the ear to reduce stuttering.
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Some of this has to do with the emphasis that British education places on fluency.
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The Turing test captures some dimensions of human intelligence, like emotional fluency and natural language.
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But when Dewdrop starts to travel backward, their dynamics change: They move with legato fluency.
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However, our fluency in Spanish allows us to greatly connect to the Latinx metal scene.
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In moments of fluency, I make solid eye contact; but when I stutter, none whatsoever.
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"If the doctor doesn't show a real fluency in this, see somebody else," he said.
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Relying on Javier's fluency in disaster, they drive south into the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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And we also know how it feels to have our fluency in that language denied.
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They also assessed their cognition with standardized tests of memory, processing speed and verbal fluency.
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CQ fluency recently worked on a program for diabetes originally intended for an English-speaking population.
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Today, fluency in high-tech skills and knowledge is no longer controlled by an elite few.
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Hispanic leaders have also stressed that simple fluency is unlikely to sway voters on its own.
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His fluency in English meant Peccerelli could interact easily with American forensics experts and international funders.
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You have to inhabit a language, not only speak it, and fluency requires some dramatic flair.
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His trademark was his fluency with synthesizers, and he was an early adopter of the Minimoog.
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The animation, rendered in modes of pencils and pastels, has a gorgeous fluency to be sure.
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Now that she's passed, this fluency continues to be useful, mainly with other Christian older women.
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Lil Wayne isn't always this narrative-driven, but his fluency and ease with syllables is unmatched.
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Practice brings procedural fluency, says Dr. Oakley, who compares the process to backing up a car.
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The director, Mikhail Red, illustrates how English fluency amounts to a social currency for the kids.
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She also gets to show off her scientific fluency (she comes from a family of scientists).
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French newspapers celebrated the first lady's style and French fluency, her keen interest in French culture.
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Digital fluency has become critical in the path to careers that offer good pay and upward mobility.
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Like Panarin, Kane credited fluency in "the language of hockey" for the productivity the pair has shown.
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Occupation description according to O*NET: Assess and treat persons with speech, language, voice, and fluency disorders.
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DeLonge also displays an impressive fluency in matters concerning Roswell, long a rumored site of alien activity.
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Those young graduates, armed with a fluency in Portuguese and legal training, swiftly rose through the ranks.
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He seems to retain fluency with the baton in his right hand, though he dropped it once.
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Observers can spot the ones who've amassed fluency in black vernacular and radical politics through cable television.
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For Donald J. Trump, the debate on Thursday was an acute test of his fluency with policy.
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Applicants must be 21 or older, have some experience in their chosen field and fluency in English.
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But the developers and users of baby sign language don't necessarily see A.S.L. fluency as a goal.
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But fluency requires much more, including understanding gestures and context, so consider the apps a starting point.
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Although Jefferson could read the languages he had studied in his youth, he struggled with spoken fluency.
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"His voice sounds healthy; he moves with fluency," Zachary Woolfe wrote in his New York Times review.
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She sent him to Staten Island's Curtis High School, where he gained fluency in English and Braille.
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He nodded along to some of Trump&aposs remarks before they were translated, showcasing his fluency in English.
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You don't have to have any "emoji fluency" to interpret that the birthday cake is a birthday cake.
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With his convincing fluency on trade, Sanders is uniquely well-suited to convey that kind of holistic worldview.
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But Clinton was always going to show more fluency on issues of policy than Trump; that's a given.
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AMLG: So it's the fluency of what's around us, of our tools as you as you put it.
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The parallel implies that fluency in many languages is a signifier of a growing heartfelt connection between hosts.
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Mr. Haskell said he knows he needs to show his fluency on the many issues plaguing the state.
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In auditioning some 700 actors, Mr. Grey and the other creators emphasized theatrical experience and talent over fluency.
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Native English speakers were asked to listen to the sentences to test the fluency of the virtual voices.
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If you want to learn a language and achieve fluency in it, you need to start speaking it.
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Creativity and critical thinking, paired with fluency in digital skills, are the key qualities needed in today's economy.
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My crossword "fluency" is best improved by opening up a blank grid and challenging myself to fill it.
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Ballet steps pour forth here with wonderfully natural fluency, while challenging the speed and dexterity of the dancers.
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Crews's exceptional fluency in the source material allows him to integrate complex incidents into an impressively cohesive narrative.
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If you have kids, you'll also want to focus on maintaining your career or financial fluency, Adam added.
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I have no secret shortcuts to gaining greater fluency beyond being open and attentive to what's around you.
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But it's very striking when it comes to Israel, an issue on which he has demonstrated real fluency.
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"Overall, it worked pretty well for some simple things, but you'd never really reach 'fluency' with it," he said.
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Job listings include roles for quality inspectors, tailors, process engineers with robotics experience, and technicians with fluency in machining.
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It produces text that has surface-level fluency, but which usually misses the deeper meaning of words and sentences.
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This shift, according to Certiport, rewards true fluency with the program, rather than rote memorization of the basic test.
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Clinton, meanwhile, demonstrated her fluency on foreign policy at Wednesday night's forum, but still found herself defending her record.
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They learned to love those notebooks, and writing every day became a welcome ritual that increased confidence and fluency.
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Neurologists therefore use tests of verbal fluency, and especially how it has changed over time, to assess cognitive status.
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Even if you have not yet attained fluency, an attempt to communicate will foster better relationships with native speakers.
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His fluency in Spanish — he worked with Jesuit missionaries in Honduras — should also help him reach out to Latinos.
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We wanted to win but we didn't have what it takes, we lacked the fluency, the ease of play.
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The litany of funding approaches available, Briggs said, is leading finance chiefs to increasingly bolster their own tech fluency.
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They also asked participants to name as many different animals as possible in one minute, to test semantic fluency.
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What's more, abacus training underscores the importance of fluency, and most abacus courses demand students do calculations at lightning speed.
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It starts with basic fluency; you can't protect yourself against a phishing attack if you don't know what it is.
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You have to have a cultural fluency of what a birthday cake is, but there's nothing special about that emoji.
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But in Kennedy's case, she was being tested on her basic fluency in English rather than what country she's from.
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Despite that later cut-off, learners must begin at around ten if they are to get to near-native fluency.
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Fiorina, Cruz said, has "a very impressive fluency with heart and smiley faced emoticons," useful talents when texting young girls.
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Some previous DHS secretaries have been criticized for not possessing enough technical fluency to address cyber threats facing the nation.
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Would-be immigrants who scored highest on youth, education, experience and fluency in English or French were offered permanent residency.
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"We want performers to be persuasive, so that their virtuosity is delivered with panache, and fluency and ease," he said.
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While Kaine's fluency in another language is nice, it should not be assumed that this will automatically win over Latinos.
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One side effect of immense fame is a fluency in fashion: Josephine was beloved by designers like Balmain and Dior.
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After all, the size of someone's vocabulary and their linguistic fluency may be easier for a partner to judge accurately.
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It is not concerned with Mr. Trump's playboy past, multiple marriages or lack of fluency in Christian language and practice.
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At the slightest prompting, he would begin unfolding the stories behind each item with the effortless fluency of a docent.
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Even so, Mr. Chapek said that his years at Disney had given him "a bit of fluency" in those businesses.
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The former vice president commands the greatest fluency on foreign policy and is a figure of great warmth and empathy.
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I'm assuming I'd receive full marks on the test for English fluency, but my age would also be a problem.
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I would become cosmopolitan and sophisticated, skipping across Europe and impressing local shopkeepers with my breezy fluency wherever I went.
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The group&aposs comfort with e-commerce and fluency with the latest technology trends make for a promising market opportunity.
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Nevertheless, Warren brought it, telling a Bible story with the fluency and vigor of someone behind a Sunday morning pulpit.
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Hagen, president of Protectors of Pine Oak Woods, a conservation group on Staten Island, will demonstrate his fluency on Saturday.
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With cash from the pipeline agreements, the community is planning a language center in hopes of reviving fluency in Wet'suwet'en.
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I realized as I listened to one after another tell their stories that they were not impressed with my fluency.
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From learning the most popular formulas to understanding formatting, this course will help you gain fluency in the best Excel practices.
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Only 2.3% of the city's 660,20113 people claim fluency in Portuguese (about 1.8% of them are wholly or partly ethnic Portuguese).
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But since Flake's retirement announcement, McSally has taken great care to demonstrate an affinity for Trump and a fluency in Trumpism.
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According to the advertisement, in high demand are recruits with computer skills and fluency in languages spoken by China's ethnic minorities.
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Take an excerpt of the same translation quiz each applicant had to complete below to check your own fluency in emoji.
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The control that he found in the flow of the game — his perfect fluency in basketball — was hard to replicate elsewhere.
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In the last dozen years, Ms. Halvorson has turned this sort of startling, off-kilter fluency into a strong aesthetic signature.
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The first television ad that Mr. Collins aired highlighted your fluency in Korean and suggested that you would move jobs overseas.
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On this song, the band focuses on sweet groans and buzz-saw arrangements while winking at its fluency in Depeche Mode.
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Right. The ability to learn how to learn, fluency of ideas, innovation, understanding and empathy of how others will react. Sure.
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The Detroit debates were heavy on policy, helping to highlight the breadth of Warren's proposals and her fluency as a debater.
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But at times, the gatherings featured a high degree of policy fluency, with constituents listing details of federal health care policy.
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Should an ambitious examination of English literature come at the cost of acquiring fluency in coding, digital marketing and the like?
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Learning a language to fluency requires discipline, frequent practice, ideally immersion — much more than a simple language-learning game can offer.
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Mr. Mouzon played straight-ahead jazz as well as fusion throughout his career, making a point of fluency in both styles.
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Combined with a preternatural compositional fluency, this allows him to portray the mood and undercurrents of texts with striking musical effects.
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A student with appropriate language fluency may enter a 10-year apprenticeship program at a studio in Japan, China, or Korea.
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And heart attack and angina patients also had faster declines in verbal skills, word fluency, and critical skills like telling time.
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Canada assesses immigrants on six selection factors, including fluency, education, experience and age, and then assigns a point value for each variable.
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While translation tools have certainly improved over the years, the technology is no replacement for fluency and still fails horribly sometimes.[Google]
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Digitally delivered content allows kids to engage in play that builds their cognitive functioning, enhances their vocabulary and increases their number fluency.
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The more open-world these maps were, the harder it was to program bots that could simulate some level of gameplay fluency.
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In "Dialect," a taxi driver finds himself unable to work after a regulation requires fluency in Mandarin and marginalizes native Cantonese speakers.
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According to Ivanka, Arabella owes her Mandarin fluency to a Chinese nanny, who has been teaching her since she was just one.
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On September 7th it said it would spend £10m on getting 5,000 state-school pupils "on track" to Mandarin fluency by 2020.
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Rafia Santana's Rafia's World, for instance, is hosted by Tumblr, a site that requires a level of fluency, according to the curator.
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In fact, Sweden — where Kjellberg is from — is famous for the highest level of fluency for English as a second language worldwide.
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Unlike the other teachers, I didn't believe that fluency in English would grant these women access to the freedoms of Western liberalism.
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"Creating that automaticity with the words and grammar you need to express yourself is how confidence and fluency are built," she stated.
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The Parade of Nations songs all have significant international and digital presences, and each advertises the cross-cultural fluency of K-pop.
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Today, I write books in English, but the roots of my career as a writer lie in Spanish literacy and Spanish fluency.
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After gaining fluency in English and Western culture, her son could also later attend a Canadian university at the discounted local rate.
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The family emigrated from Vietnam in 1975, and while her parents speak and read English, they lack the fluency of native speakers.
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Yet many organizers of tournaments where a fluency with words may spell victory or defeat seemed to tilt toward reticence on Tuesday.
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"Women often survive their spouses, and they have not been well versed in the financial fluency of their family," Ms. Ruckel said.
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He said it took him "two or three weeks" of intensive practice to get to a level of reasonable fluency in Italian.
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The group&aposs comfort with e-commerce and fluency with the latest technology trends make for a promising market opportunity, investors said.
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"There's obviously a flaw in their computer software when a person with perfect oral fluency cannot get enough points," she tells The Guardian.
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His fluency with the subject should come as no surprise: he's a veteran who helped draft the U.S. government's policy on autonomous weapons.
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Duncan Partridge of the ESU argues that the confidence and fluency debating inspires will help children in future university applications and job interviews.
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What I mean by referential is that there's an underlying fluency in the meme/viral world today that helps material go viral/memetic.
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Tech leaders often need to bridge a tech fluency gap with corporate leadership to articulate the value of these investments and secure funding.
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It also has close proximity to London and Continental Europe, universal English language fluency, an existing banking presence, and a low tax policy.
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Another claims that she is more interested in evidence than her predecessor was and praises the fluency with which she shifts between subjects.
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The weather's warm year-round, and it's easy to communicate, thanks to locals' fluency in English (a legacy of one-time British rule).
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The establishment of a base fluency, would provide the stepping stone for further tech usage that may affect the user's quality of life.
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" Carroll, 2900, came to the committee in 220006 with fluency in tech policy, and he said it has been a "trial by fire.
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Despite his fluency in Spanish and clothes bearing the default local sports brands, the young man is still clearly out of his element.
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Many come from English learner households and lack fluency in their language of instruction, and fall short on literacy, which impacts learning mindsets.
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Mr. Guiliana was the engine behind this and every other number in the set, demonstrating his usual extravagant fluency with pulse and polyrhythm.
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They recognize that his fluency in English and decades of experience give him an international stature that no other Israeli politician can rival.
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But Christie also has a fluency in blunt vernacular that can be formidably effective with GOP voters even as it raises liberal hackles.
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"Questions directly relevant to her reporting of the defendant's statements, such as those testing her memory and fluency in Spanish, will be allowed."
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Macdonald describes real detectives with the same technical fluency with which another great and underappreciated modern novelist, John Le Carré, portrays intelligence operatives.
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Over time, you'll improve your delivery and train yourself to think quickly on your feet as you articulate your thoughts with increasing fluency.
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Born in Belgium, she spent part of her youth attending private schools in the Netherlands and England, where she would have achieved fluency
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He's well on his way to fluency in Mandarin, which he thinks will give him a definite edge in any future business career.
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" Mr. Xue's long expatriation in Montreal has also increased his confidence and fluency in English; he rewrote many of the passages in "Dr.
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Without that kind of control and pictorial fluency, the story loses its sensuality, and all that's left is a fairly threadbare, clichéd melodrama.
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English, French, German, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew: of these, my father acquired the first one last, and spoke it with Nabokovian fluency and panache.
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Does he understand that being a true progressive requires a level of fluency on issues of representation and diversity to reflect our nation?
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This was at a time when I was at the edge of illiteracy with L.A., and Max was at the edge of fluency.
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She points to her fluency in policy issues and her early and vocal opposition to proposals like free college and Medicare for all.
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During the campaign, Mr. Trump seemed to demonstrate little fluency with the language of the religious right, even as he courted its support.
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"Why do you write about us?" they often spat, displaying a much wider and pointed fluency in English than will be repeated here.
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He coached the Dominican Republic national team at the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship in Mexico City, where his fluency in Spanish was helpful.
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They use computers in lieu of typewriters and have grown up on smartphones and tablets and laptops, developing an organic fluency with keyboards.
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The screens unfold like an accordion book, not quite aligning, leaving small gaps that create page breaks in the fluency of the projections.
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But the gap between his relative fluency in tax and trade matters and his total lack of awareness about health care is still stunning.
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Once necessary only for over-achieving, globe-trotting professionals, fluency in the modern lingua franca is now required for a wide range of jobs.
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Arguing that financial fluency is necessary to overcome economic inequality, he provides a glossary of many of the industry's most maddening and opaque terms.
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And while programming experience certainly won't hurt students' job prospects, fluency in the Swift programming language will only help students develop apps for iOS.
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In a follow-up study, Leavitt and Christenfeld tested this fluency explanation by repeating their experiment on a different group of 240 undergraduate students.
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We maintain standards of fluency in these subjects because they are part and parcel of critical thinking, and hallmarks of a well-rounded education.
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To reach a reasonable level of fluency in Russian, students can expect to spend 1,100 class hours — plus many hours of individual study time.
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They admire his fluency in English and decades of experience which give him an international stature that no other Israeli politician can presently rival.
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Schools in Hawaii will receive a Hawaiian-language version of Disney's hit 2016 film "Moana," in an effort to spread fluency in the language.
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In Bartlett Sher's rejuvenating revival of a Rodgers and Hammerstein war horse, Ms. O'Hara endowed her part with an exquisite emotional delicacy and fluency.
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As a workable alternative to fluency, Schwartz explained that he found it "most advantageous" to at least learn key phrases required on his travels.
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According to a Univision survey last year, 68 percent of Hispanic voters said a candidate's prospective fluency in Spanish would not influence their vote.
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Philip Roth, in writing " Portnoy's Complaint ," completed a similar move, abandoning the Jamesian habits of " When She Was Good " in favor of unbuttoned fluency.
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He's worked at Apple as an engineer on the iPhone, and has used his fluency in Japanese to teach technology to churches in Japan.
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Fluency in standard programming languages like Python, Java, and C++ are a must, as is familiarity with deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch.
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Mr. Perez, the Georgetown graduate, was seeking the commissioner's seat held by Willie Gandara Jr., who criticized Mr. Perez's lack of fluency in Spanish.
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However, my children are fully "American" as any other child in this town having the benefit of our education, wealth, cultural and English fluency.
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When a child doesn't gain language fluency during this period, language deprivation results, and one's capacity for intellectual development is diminished substantially and permanently.
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Interest rate swaps, internal rates of return, first-loss debt instruments: the jargon rolls off his tongue with the fluency of an investment banker.
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This egalitarian format would de-emphasize pre-existing notoriety and highlight the qualities of assertiveness, vision, eloquence and policy fluency that contribute to leadership.
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But her fluency has become a lot more personal since her 6-year-old daughter Ana was murdered in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting.
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Mr. Trudeau and his Liberal Party's digital fluency during the election helped them attract the support of an unusually large group of young voters.
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This passage, in which she executes the same step (enveloppé, or grand battement raccourci) again and again, demonstrates her poise, her fluency, her amplitude.
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G.R. What Thomas Rhett and Maren Morris have in common is a fluency with R&B gestures — they're a natural fit for a duet.
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Thanks to that fluency, the scene becomes a savage sequel to Iñárritu's "Birdman," which also ducked and darted from one figure to the next.
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"The men in France had an unusual fluency with the terminology for dick-sucking," an American woman who studied abroad in Paris told me.
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Now members of the website's news staff are using their fluency in digital culture to pressure their employer to come to the bargaining table.
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The National Association of Colleges and Employers surveys employers and found study abroad and language fluency last among criteria used to hire new college graduates.
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For the type designer, the lack of precedent and the frequent use make it a test of confidence and fluency in the design at hand.
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After that, Kennedy still had trouble finding words for things—he might look at a pencil and call it a pen—but his fluency improved.
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Her international background and fluency in Arabic would become assets after she graduated from George Mason University and entered the world of international aid work.
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Clinton camp was ready to pounce on Trump's VP rollout It was an experience that cemented his Catholic faith and strengthened his fluency in Spanish.
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In many ways, you can plot almost any cultural product on a spectrum between disfluency and fluency, how much difficulty of thinking does it arise.
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That Coogler's film ponders the ideas of race, heroism, and responsibility with such fluency and thoughtfulness doesn't mean Black Panther is averse to having fun.
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But today even basic jobs require linguistic fluency, if only to understand health and safety rules, so most governments lay on language classes for newcomers.
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When a child doesn't gain language fluency during the brain's "critical period" from 0-5 years old, one's capacity for intellectual development is diminished substantially.
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Some of that fluency lingers in "Stan & Ollie," a new film about Laurel and Hardy, written by Jeff Pope and directed by Jon S. Baird.
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Naturalized citizens earn 8–11 percent more in annual income than non-naturalized immigrants (controlling for variables such as skills, education and fluency in English).
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Fluency in multiple forms of storytelling — words and images, but also more inventive means afforded by social media and interactive technology — is also a must.
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But after meeting with little success, they turned to creating schools to spread the much more popular American gospel of English fluency and engineering excellence.
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With his technical fluency, strategic melodic thinking and cleanly dusted tone, Wendel has become an idol to an entire generation of young tenor saxophone students.
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For as useful as learning a new writing system or understanding basic phrases can be, it's only a small part of fluency in a language.
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There, my French reached a fluidity, if not fluency, and my interest in other worlds led me to pursue a career as a travel writer.
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There are ways for him to assert the primacy of economic issues while developing a fluency with how that intersects with other forms of inequality.
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He thought that a fluency in English, combined with his creativity, technical skill and ambition, might help him connect with a mentor and move up.
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A boon for the Buttigieg campaign has been the candidate's fluency in Spanish, which allows him to narrate his own audiovisual materials in the language.
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No president has ever had the fluency with American cultural life that Mr. Obama has had, and no president has deployed its symbolism so effectively.
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In one chapter titled "Dialect," a taxi driver finds himself unable to work after a regulation requires fluency in Mandarin and marginalizes native Cantonese speakers.
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To understand and use health-related information, you need some fluency with written or spoken language, and usually with numbers and basic math as well.
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"And your brain misattributes that fluency as a signal for it being true," says Lisa Fazio, a psychologist who studies learning and memory at Vanderbilt University.
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Zwack, now a global fellow for the Woodrow Wilson International Center's Kennan Institute, pointed to Vindman's fluency in Russian as an asset during their missions there.
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TL;DR: Learn languages like Italian, German, Portuguese and more with a lifetime subscription to the MosaLingua Language Learning Fluency Bundle for $99, a 97% savings.
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The cast members — and they're marvelous, to a one — deliver the script's stately speech with such easy fluency that you forget they're speaking in iambic pentameter.
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In some cases, DBS seems to bring on side effects like a decline in word fluency and verbal memory, depression, increased suicide tendencies, anxiety and mania.
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Fact-checking the candidates' claims Why the exchange about Henry Kissinger mattered Clinton's fluency on foreign policy has long been a strength Sanders can't possibly match.
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Fluency in Python 12.53 is basically a requirement in the software development world and can be used for nearly anything related to desktop or web applications.
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The skills of Bruno Le Maire are indeed a plus, such as his fluency in German, but he is also perceived as a right-wing politician.
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But even communicating was a challenge: Mélida had lost some of her fluency in Cubeo, the indigenous language they had spoken when she was a child.
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But what's well-masked in his productions for others is, in his own music, brought to the fore — a fluency with texture, a willingness to unsettle.
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Clinton's more moderate plans, coupled with her better (though not necessarily great) fluency on race issues, may seem more achievable than Sanders's liberal, class-focused plank.
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At a time when women weren't even trusted to vote, off they went to Europe, at last with a use for their ladylike fluency in French.
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He is 41 now, and committed to the work, making canvases that look similar from far away but up close reveal a fluency in pointillist detail.
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Among the many choreographic resources Mr. Morris shows here — gesture, rhythm, line, grouping, not least — the originality and fluency of his stage geometries are especially impressive.
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The film, in its structure, had no precedent, and one's response to it seemed to be at least partly a function of age and technological fluency.
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In the lulls between high-octane fight scenes, Nieh uses the gaps in Victor's fluency to lend realism to the experience of straddling these two worlds.
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One of those gifts is fluency with the sort of language that can be printed in this newspaper generally only when associated with White House intrigue.
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Overall, she combines vitality with sweetness; the fluency with which she strings her sharply pattering steps into prolonged phrases is a particular part of her spell.
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In a follow-up study, the researchers found that having sex at least once a week was highly predictive of improved cognitive functioning, especially verbal fluency.
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But the images are enriched by fluency in modern art, especially Cubism and Picasso's two-faced heads, curvaceous Marie-Thérèse Walter images and monumental beached nudes.
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In it, he spoke at length about his lifelong struggle with a stutter of his own, which still seems to affect the fluency of his speech.
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Points are assigned based on education level, age, fluency in English and prior connections to the country such as having attended one of its educational institutions.
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But why exactly did Trump feel the need to remark on Anzaldua's English fluency to the audience, as if they might have been concerned or confused?
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According to a 1983 People article, Gavin oversaw a 1,181-member embassy and put his fluency in Spanish and degree in Latin American politics to good use.
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That includes traffic information from Google Maps based on your location, upcoming events from your Google Calendar and voice translation that's nearing human fluency with Google Translate.
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Clinton, in turn, will contrast her long experience in and around government, and her fluency with policy, to Trump's preference for platitudes and promises over policy details.
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"Jon brings the perfect mix of producing and writing talent, combined with a fluency in the Star Wars universe," said Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy in the announcement.
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But the biggest rumor regarding TouchWiz and the S7 is that Samsung's reportedly reached out to Google in an effort to help improve the "fluency" of TouchWiz.
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"Since I was born I've only ever interacted with Japanese people," said Gursewak, who is now 8003, speaks the language with native fluency and considers himself Japanese.
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Through its state-of-the-art speech recognition technology and fun, bite-sized lessons, you'll gain fluency in your language of choice faster than you know it.
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Recently arrived from Chicago, West was a young, mid-tier hip-hop producer, not known for his fluency in the tough-guy discourse then dominant among rappers.
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As Samuel English Anthony puts it in his write-up of the most recent accident at Slate, Google's cars lack the "intuitive fluency" of a human driver.
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It also found a lack of basic digital fluency, like the ability to use a spreadsheet, which is a critical skill in the ever-evolving job market.
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The language coach said that once she put this system in place, she noticed "immediate results" in her fluency, vocabulary, and overall confidence when communicating in French.
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As new readers move from decoding text to fluency, every subject from math to history becomes more accessible, but practice is the only way to get there.
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And our handshake, I sensed, had completed our conversation in the secret language of male intimacy, a language in which I am still struggling to gain fluency.
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Officers of the clandestine service were expected to have fluency in countries where they served; they were rewarded financially for keeping their language skills up to date.
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" The New York Times critic Glenn Kenny said the animation of "Dear Basketball" had "gorgeous fluency," but that the film was "substance-free, an advertisement for itself.
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It's purely on the basis of the fluency of their ... Have you ever thought about, I mean, because facial recognition would work very well in your field.
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Amid questions about their views on marijuana, their feelings about law enforcement and their fluency in Spanish, only one said that she was afraid of Mr. Guzman.
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But President Nelson's priorities in office may be somewhat different, given his background in medicine, his experience training heart surgeons in China and his fluency in Mandarin.
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At the same time, the new jobs being created to work alongside digital technologies are going unfilled because of an overall lack in fluency of digital skills.
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What this tool adds is scale, language fluency, and the ability to mirror the jargon and writing style of any profession or, with enough samples, any individual.
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I had finally committed to a self-improvement project, and every time I leveled up in a language, I felt I was one step closer to fluency.
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He has taken to deploying phrases like "personal cyberhygiene" in conversation and discusses Russian incursions into French politics with a fluency once reserved for Virginia budget skirmishes.
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He became a traveling pilgrim, and though not trained or ordained as a priest, he began to attract acolytes with his earthy wisdom and fluency with Scripture.
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"Once he got a little fluency in Spanish, they sent him to parishes in the hills to say Mass and hear confession," said his older brother, Denis.
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As a Brazilian and native Portuguese speaker, I attribute my fluency in English largely to fandom, and my love of punk bands from California as a teenager.
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We've talked a lot about creating digital fluency in our students with technology in the classroom, but in most American schools we're still struggling to integrate technology effectively.
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Fluency guides our thinking in situations where we have no idea that it's at work, and it affects us in any situation where we need to process information.
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But with her strong scholarship in international relations and her fluency in English, she was appointed to a Japanese delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in 1968.
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In an opinion adopted formally on Friday, the commission said it was legitimate for Ukraine to address inequalities by helping citizens gain fluency in the state language, Ukrainian.
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White rappers have never been bigger than in 2018, but none have topped Eminem's skill set, his ability to quell cultural appropriation critiques, or fluency in both cultures.
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VICE News correspondent Mary H.K. Choi also traveled to London to interview Today Translations' CEO and founder, Jurga Zilinskiene, who said there's a real market for emoji fluency.
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Without foreign language fluency, an officer is unlikely to know whether a post needs additional review, said Rachel Levinson-Waldman, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice.
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" First, he said, participants have to have unique, in-demand skills, such as fluency in Pashto, that the Pentagon has deemed "critical" and "vital to the national interest.
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Despite the complexity of its structure, the production's emotional fluency is bell-clear, as is its honesty about the complex and sometimes mysterious roots of the characters' problems.
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It operates a platform that lets brands and companies to operate chatbots using the native Bahasa Indonesian language, and not English which is not widely spoken with fluency.
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"[T]he rapper developed his online fanbase (and his fluency in the quick, satiric language of the internet) by curating memes on Twitter," Time said about Lil Nas.
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But research shows that fact fluency (the ability to easily recall facts, such as 3 x 5 = 15)—is best developed from first making sense of arithmetic operations.
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Intensive classroom instruction supplemented by social media pen pals, skype dates with international authors, immersion experiences with host families, study abroad and onsite cultural experiences, all promote fluency.
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Just last year, a tweet by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went viral after she admitted to struggling to maintain her fluency in Spanish—despite it being her native language.
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We think we know a lot about these candidates, and we do: their basic biographies, their professional accomplishments, their fluency so far at the microphone and in interviews.
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Singh stands out with his brightly colored turbans and is considered competitive to Trudeau, due to the two's similarity in social media fluency and appeal to younger voters.
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If you only know a handful of shortcuts, the harsh reality is you're not going to qualify for positions that require complete fluency in the suite of software.
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Thanks to her fluency in Spanish, she said, Nancy would get a free spot in exchange for help with daily tasks and organizing a day trip to Morocco.
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But fluency is also a function of familiarity, as grammar offers few clues as to the parts of speech that are not so much idioms as loose affinities.
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His family said he was there to build on his fluency in Dari, a language closely related to Farsi that he learned over four years while living in Afghanistan.
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On Slack, which was developed in 2013 so its founders could discuss a game they were building, participants sign into ''channels,'' and threads unspool with surprising fluency and delight.
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McGowan found none of the fluency of Friday when he produced a thrilling 62 and his disappointing day was compounded by a double bogey on the par-four seventh.
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The interview came around and Wyner ended up being placed in an advanced class because he had reached near fluency through the learning methods he had developed using Anki.
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As you might expect, the persona bot didn't score as highly on criteria like "fluency" and "consistency" as the humans, but it outperformed the chatbot trained on movie dialogue.
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"We've seen a large number of families that have been reunified who are coming to us with very low Spanish fluency, to the point of almost none," Levy said.
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"Marco Rubio has a certain fluency, and ability to connect with voters, and this will be one of the first times a wider audience has seen it," said Wilson.
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Chatterbug faces a wide range of competitors like Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, Busoo, Babbel, and HelloTalk — some with deep pockets and a penchant for downplaying the difficulty of reaching fluency.
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Whether you're going on a trip halfway across the world or want to flex on your résumé, these apps can help you gain fluency in your language of choice.
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"We like his youth, his bilingual fluency and the fact that he isn't one more Republican who's been standing in line, awaiting his turn to run," the board added.
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Mr. Trump, who supported abortion rights until 2011, has struggled to articulate his evolution to the anti-abortion camp and has shown a lack of fluency on the details.
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For an artist in her early 20s, Shoukair already demonstrates clear, singular vision carried across multiple disciplines; ease and fluency with ambiguity and discovery; and a honed, editorial eye.
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What counts as "fluent" is a tough concept to describe, but the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (or CEFR) is a widely-accepted standard for approximating fluency.
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Mr. Osius' fluency in Vietnamese and his frequent public appearances, sometimes with Mr. Bond and their two children in tow, gave him an unusually high profile among the Vietnamese.
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For some, assimilation is based on pragmatic considerations, like achieving some fluency in the dominant language, some educational or economic success, some familiarity with the country's history and culture.
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I know I've used both IRED and ALE TAP in previous work, too — it's all about that process of fluency, and learning from past mistakes to improve your skills.
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His work embodies Italy's fluency with the lexicons of both decay and high Modernism, a complicated language that in the developed world might be shared only by the Japanese.
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Then fluency fast-forwards and children start picking up long chapter books even though they might not yet be ready for wizards, menstruation or the humiliations of middle school.
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The moment a camera starts rolling, Gaetz hits his mark, dutifully repeating the president's arguments and evasions to the media with, frankly, far more fluency than the president himself.
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Not to unduly shame the American education system, but chances are Bob Dorough has had more of an impact on grammar fluency than any other individual in the 20th century.
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Not only are the three signs more descriptive of a person's personality, they show fluency in astrology, which may be appealing to folks who are deeply invested in the process.
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"We can now see management having complete fluency and command over the tactics and details to achieve their broad strategic goals," equity analyst John Ivankoe wrote in a research note.
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Hopefully, with more films like Tully and more women getting opportunities behind the camera as directors, writers, and producers, we will see a greater "fluency" regarding women's stories and experiences.
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Your enjoyment hinges to some extent on your level of fluency in the geekier edges of pop culture, but its chief success is as a work of popcorn-munching spectacle.
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His presidential campaign had taken him far from home lately, to New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, he said, racing through his words with the fluency of a native speaker.
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For its part, Duolingo claims that its app will teach you 1,000 Chinese characters and bring you to an upper beginner level of fluency, and for that it seems competent.
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And his biggest applause lines came in Spanish -- a reminder of his fluency in the language, which could help the Democratic ticket reach Latino voters who Trump might have alienated.
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Unlike the gorgeous but pricey Seaboard—ROLI's flagship product, which brought squishy, feature-heavy keys to the piano back in 2013—BLOCKS requires little musical fluency to operate or master.
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Rattigan goes to an art show and discusses the pieces with his date with some measure of fluency, thanks to the help of Google and the notes he bought along.
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Stars such as Selena Gomez, Zendaya, and Camila Cabello have brought their fluency in Spanish to their music — Bieber is really just following a trend, and we're glad he did.
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Meeting a compatible partner can be challenging for anyone, but this challenge can be amplified for people with Down Syndrome because of difficulties with communication and speech fluency, for example.
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There is always work for a smart person with a suitable pedigree and fluency in management patois, which is good for Sam Hinkie but points back to a bigger problem.
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One of these pioneers was Dave Winer, CEO of a company called UserLand Software, which developed early content management systems that made blogging accessible to people without deep technical fluency.
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This time, he has turned to a James Baldwin novel from 1974, "If Beale Street Could Talk," adapting it for the screen and directing with his customary fluency and care.
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And while Ocasio-Cortez and Teigen move in vastly different circles on opposite costs, they share a fluency with their own social media that has made them both Twitter stars.
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False information we have previously encountered feels more familiar, producing a feeling of fluency that causes us to rate it as more accurate than information we have not seen before.
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Hugh Legat, a junior Foreign Service officer with an Oxford degree and fluency in German, wins Chamberlain's confidence and secures a place among the inner circle at 10 Downing Street.
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Most of the green cards would go to immigrants under a point system that ranks applicants based on certain criteria, such as professional skills, education level, age, and English fluency.
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That placement will offer Mr. Booker the chance to demonstrate his own fluency on the issues while also letting him draw contrasts in tone with the more populist Massachusetts senator.
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Mr. Dal Monte said that his fluency in English and his knowledge of American culture helped him professionally at an early age and eventually got him the job at Ferrari.
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How should we account for all the physicians, business owners and financiers who supported Mr. Trump, despite their fluency with politics and economics and their appreciation of training and expertise?
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As a young man, he had a kind of Michael Corleone Before the Fall look, sloe-eyed, dark, a little hunched, but high courtesy and verbal fluency were his charm.
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They are a world of exuberance and color, swirling portraits that show off a fluency with art drawn from multiple eras: 1960s psychedelia, Tibetan mandalas, American quilts, Madhubani paintings. Gorgeous.
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In part that's because of complementarity: Immigrants don't take jobs from Americans; they let Americans take higher-skill jobs (ones requiring English language fluency, for instance) and complement their labor.
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In their paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installations, the students of the august art school demonstrate their fluency with formalism and, in a couple of instances, their interest in avian imagery.
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Revealing a social media fluency surprising for her age, Greta uses Frances' phone to convince her father that she's on vacation with Erica, and convince Erica that she's with her dad.
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There were stories of people who had these experiences and came back with different skills — they were tone deaf before and came back with perfect pitch, or had sudden language fluency.
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Thomas Bauer, chair of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration, proposes expanding the pathways for potential immigrants to include language fluency or previous work experience in Germany.
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Fluency in the classics was de rigueur among the American upper class into which Eva was born in 1874, but her interest in Greek culture soared to exceptional, all-encompassing heights.
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The young man's fluency demonstrated that his 'wetware' – a living neural network, if you will – had been trained well enough to intuit the subtle rules (and exceptions) that make language natural.
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What's blessedly the same: the dry sense of humor, the luscious visual style established by the frequent director Hiro Murai and the writers' effortless fluency with social media's language and quirks.
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But even as he impressed with the fluency of his Quranic recitation and easily made friends, Mr. Zaharan confronted his teachers and accused them of failing to adhere to true Islam.
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In public schools, parents have also pushed for dual-language immersion programs, which foster fluency for students who need help with English while allowing English speakers to gain a new language.
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J.P. New wave structure meets punk blatancy and 21st-century gender fluency in this opening salvo from Dream Wife, a London art-school trio with an Icelandic singer-screamer, Rakel Mjöll.
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But Mr. Gutiérrez's fluency in English and familiarity with the United States — he still lives much of the time in Ventura — have given him an opportunity to reach a wider audience.
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Elementary readers can follow along with the text of stories at Storynory and practice skills from alphabetic awareness to reading fluency at Raz-Kids, which provides evidence-based structured literacy resources.
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Whether because of the density of their lyrics or the expectation of vocal fluency across a wide range, some of the songs invite a technical response instead of an emotional one.
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" Mr. Bard, Mr. Miller wrote, had a "talent for overriding probability, an emotional fluency which sent his thoughts on swallow loops from subject to subject, a progressive, enthusiastic view of life.
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One of Facebook's first 300 users, Buttigieg's tech fluency offered a striking contrast to the stereotype of tech-inept members of Congress, a frequent complaint within tech in recent regulatory hearings.
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" Mr. Castro, a third-generation Mexican-American who has endured repeated scrutiny over his lack of Spanish fluency, ended his last campaign video with a message to supporters: "Ganaremos un día!
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In public, he did not show much fluency in the basics of health policy, let alone the ability to persuade Republicans on complicated issues like the growth rate of Medicaid payments.
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Since then, I've used it on and off in both work and personal settings, but I always try to maintain a level of fluency by using it any chance I get.
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They were what gave him all the attributes Exponential is looking for: fluency at navigating the real world, creativity at solving new problems, judgment you could entrust with an important decision.
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By her mid-20s — she's now 53 — she recognized that her education, fluency in English and overseas experience could make for a more fulfilling profession in tourism than in office work.
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" But when I start to mention a Tom Wolfe satire of post-modernists, Bowie bridles at the name: "Oh, I admire the fluency of his writing, but he's a very egocentric writer.
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While Emmert is aiming toward conversational fluency in High Valyrian, her priority is still on French and Spanish — the languages that allow her to travel the world, not just TV show universes.
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Although the women's dances have a little of the rippling fluency of those in "Set and Reset," they're contrasted with the extraordinary slow, weighted duets for men (Olsi Gjeci and Stuart Shugg).
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As she marshals her fluency in policy, she will want to avoid coming off as lecturing or smug, the way critics say Al Gore did in his debates with George W. Bush.
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"Fluency" is the name for a behavioral bias that causes us to value things more highly if they are easier to mentally process, and to undervalue things that are complex or uncomfortable.
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Achieving fluency in these complex issues is a big ask on top of all the usual parental duties — and on top of that, parents and schools are often put in adversarial positions.
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We need to stop fretting about imaginary plots to flood the market with low-wage programmers, and embrace reality: Technical fluency is critical to our national success and to our global humanity.
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When we set out to create a series of public workshops called Re:Think we decided to base them on developing fluency with first principle ideas and applying them to solve business problems.
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In Latinx communities in the US, for example, fascinating patterns of language fluency and use may complicate institutions' decisions about how to invest accordingly … which brings us back to that PMA survey.
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Meanwhile he applies for a transit camp in England en route to America, noting his high school training in economics and metals and fluency in German, English, French, Polish, Hungarian and Hebrew.
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And though she spoke Spanish at home, Lopez explained her lack of fluency was due to her parents' idea (common among many Latino households) that English would afford their children more opportunities.
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PARELES Known for infusing Afro-Caribbean tradition into contemporary jazz, the Puerto Rican-born tenor saxophonist David Sánchez typically turns heads with the enormous power and flash-bang fluency of his playing.
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He too had dictionaries from a number of languages in his library - including Arabic, Gaelic and Welsh, but no evidence exists that he ever gained any sort of fluency in these languages.
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In the hours since, users on Twitter have identified the man as Aaron Schlossberg, a New York attorney who has touted his fluency in Spanish on the website for his law office.
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It's this fluency and network of willing collaborators that has enabled Glemaud to keep his business relatively contained, and his costs low; at the moment, he has no other full-time employees.
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Until recently, admission was based on acquiring at least 2272 points, with up to 2000 given for advanced education, fluency in English and French, and four or more years of work experience.
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Patients with angina showed a robust decline in cognitive skills related to time, whereas heart attack patients had significant cognitive decline in verbal memory and word fluency, and worse overall cognitive decline.
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But the syntax of longing was beyond the capacities of their translator app; it would be another generation, Kaskil's father said, before they had enough language data to train their algorithms to fluency.
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"Campaigns are very difficult places to get up to speed on foreign policy if you don't have some fluency in it already," said Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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I think bringing some human language into business reporting, bringing the fluency of blogs to business reporting, I think that's probably the only thing I can claim to have brought to some extent.
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"It was a fascinating process," she says of coming to realize that it wasn't only fluency that would make the guide engaging; just as important was a speaker's grasp of the target culture.
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Louise Kennedy, a vet who has been working in Queensland, Australia, but is originally from Wicklow, Ireland, failed an English fluency test despite being native in the language, according to the Irish Independent.
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Much of his large-scale symphonic writing dwells in Shostakovich's mournful-antic shadow, yet in chamber forms Weinberg assumes a distinctive profile, his melodic fluency underpinned by a flair for tension and surprise.
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"The Financial Fluency podcast meets you where you&aposre at as a business owner and doesn&apost try to overcomplicate things, making it one of the best in its genre," said Caprio.9.
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Several of these pictures, including "Prison" (1949) and "To Joy" (1950), are substantial works that some have called masterpieces; they certainly display Bergman's uncanny, even precocious, command of film language and dramatic fluency.
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During the war years, many Muslim men rose up the ranks of the government's intelligence services because they were known for their fluency in Sri Lanka's three major languages — Sinhala, Tamil and English.
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It wasn't until he had spent some time living in France as the American ambassador, that he was able to achieve fluency in the French language, falling hard for it along the way.
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One of these, for example, is called the verbal fluency test, which assesses a person's ability to generate words in certain categories or beginning with certain letters — a test of left hemisphere integrity.
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When he emerged seven years ago, he was a high-fashion natural, displaying the sort of comfort and fluency in that world other rappers had pretended to pull off but never quite nailed.
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Their fluency in archaic programming languages will become only more crucial as the years go on, because even as the probes harvest priceless information from the cosmos, they are running out of fuel.
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The campaign for greater restrictions on gun access led by students who survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has highlighted one attribute of the post-millennials: their digital fluency.
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Taking the lectern beneath the dome of the restored Reichstag, Vladimir V. Putin soon shifted to German, with a fluency that startled the German lawmakers and a pro-West message that reassured them.
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In addition to the rankings, students should also consider their fluency in the language of instruction, the fields of study that the school offers and the costs that come from studying in another country.
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Facebook recently posted ads for Myanmar-focused jobs, including a public policy manager, specifying that fluency in Burmese and an understanding "of the Myanmar political system" were essential skills for the Singapore-based job.
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Back in 2009, the Pentagon launched a new pilot program to allow thousands of foreign-born recruits, particularly those with medical skills or fluency in a critical foreign language, to join the US military.
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Dark chocolate has a high concentration of flavanol-rich cocoa, which has been shown to "improve verbal fluency and cognitive function " in elderly people, according to a study published by the American Heart Association.
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Insights into Russian literature and writing are usually difficult to access without fluency, because the language is nuanced and referential, yet the way Jackson translates Kabakov's writing does it justice by allowing readers in.
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"I was getting 15 or 20 calls a day, and it became too hard to handle them all," recalled Denno, who used his English fluency to find information when he first got to Germany.
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But on the issue of trade, the one policy domain where he's consistently engaged and seems to have some sincere interest, one might expect him to show some degree of fluency in the issue.
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If a business hires two new immigrant janitors, a black janitor could become a foreman to manage the immigrants thanks to his English fluency or take on a more specialized role for higher pay.
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Rohrbach explains that Fluent City takes a different approach to both what and how languages are taught, focusing less on true fluency and more on communicative proficiency, letting students confidently communicate with their peers.
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Here were four musicians who had thrown their hard-won concepts of Western intonation overboard in order to learn a new language to the point beyond fluency, where they communicated with eloquence and zest.
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Lauren Tarshis, senior vice president at Scholastic and a contributor to the report, pointed to the focus on third grade as the pivotal year when children are expected to achieve full fluency as readers.
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His fluency in the language of the Republican base, which comes more naturally to him than any other Trump family member besides the president, has prompted constant questions about whether he will run someday.
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In a pilot study Bridge helped prepare with the Ministry of Education and others in Liberia, four times as many children achieved fluency benchmarks at Bridge public schools as compared to other public schools.
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The son of Puerto Rican natives, Rivera grew up in the Throgs Neck neighborhood of the Bronx and could speak a bit of Spanish as a child but lost fluency as he grew up.
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The context of New York City, especially its private schools, heightened their fear that their kids would never encounter the "real world," or have "fluency outside the bubble," in the words of one inheritor.
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One way that fluency can make a story more enjoyable is that it reduces the need to make (possibly incorrect) inferences about where the story is going or what a character is thinking or feeling.
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Still, a major reason that interviews can be so nerve-wracking is because conveying your worth off the résumé requires careful preparation, quick thinking, and verbal fluency that are hard to maintain on the spot.
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"You wanted your cam to be better and you're learning Final Cut Pro because you want the editing to be better," she says, adding to those skills a fluency in Adobe and purchasing a DLSR.
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These students relate to rock music with no more fluency than they do the music of Mesopotamia: It's a style they've learned to recognize, but just barely (and only because they've taken this specific class).
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Mr. Trump is a member of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., a liberal mainline Protestant denomination, has demonstrated little fluency in the Bible or Christianity, and has said that he has never asked God for forgiveness.
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Except garish eccentricity is one of Lady Gaga's comfort zones, and that album's lack of success had more to do with overemphasizing the nonmusical aspects of Gaga's character than her lack of fluency with music.
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Some of the advisers whom the president's orders are filtering through are coming from the West, lacking fluency in the nuances of the country's politics and unable to help the younger officials maneuver within it.
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Warren's easy fluency with policy is on full display here, but it's her systematic thinking about the nature of power, and what it takes to redistribute it, that really sets her apart from the field.
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Learning French: A writer who moved to Paris in her early 30s explores why, in 15 years of living in the city, she has "merely gone from bad to not bad" instead of achieving fluency.
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Her fluency on the topic could make it a useful springboard for rejiggering the focus of the primary debate and put Biden, who is trending up in recent polls of Iowa, on the back foot.
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None of my three children grew to love classical music the way I did, and I'm sometimes sad about that, just as I regret not passing on to them fluency in my mother tongue, German.
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Early feedback from users on the Duolingo forums and elsewhere have been mixed; some users found it helpful to come back to earn higher-level crowns, while others appear discouraged that their fluency percentages have disappeared.
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Also, the world of business is more international and companies' reaches are more global than ever before, so you might actually find that your familiarity with, and fluency in, another country could be a résumé plus.
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Increasing one's language fluency simply requires an adjustment of one's understanding of the rules of play — a particularly important exercise in this time of growing cultural disconnection, and one that can be done at any age.
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Eager acolytes of his political vision referred to themselves as "Yang Gang," and Yang showed a strong fluency in internet memes and other web-based organizing that made him a popular candidate among some younger voters.
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The rest of the parties, meanwhile — Primo and his cronies, James Fletcher Chace, J. Paul Getty Sr., his secretary — discuss negotiations with such practiced fluency that it seems as if these kidnappings happen all the time.
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The focus is on Leonardo the artist, and in particular on his mastery of drawing where his ideas seem to have been given visual form with effortless fluency beyond the reach of any of his predecessors.
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These gifts from the collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros make essential viewing on their own; when they later get integrated into MoMA's refreshed collection displays, they will reshape a museum approaching fluency in Spanish and Portuguese.
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An eye for picking the next viral hit demands not just fluency in the tastes of the day but also the ability to intuit the ever-evolving zeitgeist as it warps and flows across social media.
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A rollicking tenor saxophonist with his feet firmly planted in the soul-jazz tradition, Person improvises with great fluency and creativity — treating blues clichés as valid ingredients, but mixing in plenty of lyrical originality as well.
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His fluency in Punjabi, a language spoken in Pakistan and India, made him eligible to enter the US Army through MAVNI, and he enlisted in February 2016, during his junior year at Hunter College in New York.
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It is as much an exploration of human–animal relationships as it is about mentor–student relationships, and Sigrid Nunez's keen emotional fluency allows the reader to feel a sense of healing and catharsis alongside her protagonist.
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Much of that had to do with Mr. Eubanks, a guitarist with an extravagant expressive palette and a technique that merges postbop fluency with flamenco and classical fingerstyles as well as the lilt of West African blues.
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Politically, Democrats expect Kaine could help Clinton rally voters in the important swing state of Virginia, and that his fluency in Spanish will be a big asset as he campaigns in minority-heavy areas of the country.
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Yet the concert harp is a European classical instrument, and its presence in jazz was marginal — a matter of gossamer drapery — before Ms. Ashby, whose 1957 debut album, "The Jazz Harpist," established her fluency as an improviser.
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First, find the wonder and joy: Games and puzzles that get people playing with numbers, such as Sudoku, KenKen or certain card games, create an intellectual need to use math facts that helps kids develop fact fluency.
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His fluency in these languages suggests a type of visual "code switching," but there's no discomfort or adaptation at play as the artist is fully at home in this intersection between worlds that pokes at your expectations.
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He's a regular member of a black church where they love him, and can speak about faith with a fluency that comes from going every Sunday instead of getting speechwriters to pull choice Bible verses for him.
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Through his fluency in internet manliness, Trump Jr. has tried to teach a younger generation how to fight the left, the Trump Jr. way: Punch hard, talk fast, protect dad at all costs and damn the consequences.
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This Brooklyn Academy of Music retrospective highlights points of commonality between those two auteurs, one French and the other Japanese, who both demonstrated boldness with color, fluency with pop culture, and caustic takes on youth and rebellion.
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This is especially true of the nearly 8,000 members of the Foreign Service, with their rigorous entrance exam and a strict up-or-out promotions system, not to mention their cosmopolitan ethos and fluency in multiple languages.
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Stephen Holden named it a Times Critic's Pick: "At its heart is an incandescent performance by Ms. Oduye, who captures the jagged mood swings of late adolescence with a wonderfully spontaneous fluency," he wrote in his review.
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The money will go to projects that offer training and career coaching to people short on skills for a rapidly digitizing economy where businesses and their workers need fluency in coding, mobile apps, and social media to compete.
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The team behind the stage adaptation — directed by Laurence Connor, with a book by Julian Fellowes (yes, the man who gave us "Downton Abbey") and lyrics by Glenn Slater — translates that sensibility into Broadway-ese with surprising fluency.
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The fluency of concept and form in Paul D'Agostino's new, bifurcated show at Life on Mars marks a further consolidation of his rigorous attention to language and the infinity of ways it can be parsed, subverted, and remade.
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They were asked to complete tasks that measured emotional functioning, memory attention and math fluency at the end of each week, and the researchers found that going to sleep one hour later impaired children's performance on the tasks.
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Disaster resilience is obviously not anyone's top voting issue in 2020, but there was something extremely refreshing about seeing a politician talk about specific things he's actually done and display fluency with the way the government actually works.
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Cloud AutoML is basically a way to allow non-experts — those without machine learning expertise or even coding fluency — to train their own self-learning models, all using tools that exist as part of Google's cloud computing offering.
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If it can help youth from inner-city slums and more remote areas develop fluency around these sensitive topics, they can speak about them—both on a digital platform like Youth Ki Awaaz, and in their daily lives.
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At least as recently as 2012 ICE agents in HSI were required to be fluent in the legal protections enjoyed by their targets—a fluency that was required of ERO agents training as well as recently as 2015.
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The deprivations of his grave illness — the verbal and physical fluency going and gone — garnered for him great sympathy, and to be fair, it was only at this stage of his life that he attained truly human grace.
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Disney and Lucasfilm offered no additional details about the untitled project in its announcement on Thursday, although Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, noted in a statement that Mr. Favreau has a "fluency" with the "Star Wars" universe.
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Another approach, already proposed by some in Congress, would move to a Canadian-type point system, which allocates visas competitively based on various criteria such as existing ties to the country, English fluency, formal education and job skills.
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Fluency in English, a test of "Australian values" and a longer waiting period are part of the proposal, which was widely viewed as an effort to keep Mr. Turnbull's government from being toppled by rivals on the right.
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Even when it's performed with something less than perfect flair or fluency, even when we know it to be entirely fake, it accesses fantasies we all have — to flee, to fly, to see, to survive what seems impossible.
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In contrast, playing Pokémon Go involves our actual environment, with which our mind is far more familiar; thus, playing within that setting delivers a comforting feeling of cognitive fluency — a mental shortcut that signals familiarity in a treacherous world.
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DragonBox Numbers, nominated for BEST LEARNING GAME DragonBox Numbers gives children who are at the outset of their math education the foundation they need in order to succeed: a strong sense of numbers and fluency with addition and counting.
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He showed a force and fluency that has often eluded him, arguing that differences between the candidates were trivial and that more discussion in the party was needed about how to beat Trump and win full control of Congress.
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The message to young women, educators, employers and governments should be clear that digital fluency is vital, internet access is fundamental, and helping women make smart choices to obtain paid work is essential in closing the gender pay gap.
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Williams and Garcia took the court in a battle between two players possessing huge forehands and a tendency to attack their opponent's second serve, the contest starting out as slow burner that lacked fluency after they traded early breaks.
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The Observer's Laura Cumming's remark that Khakhar "had no fluency or touch with the brush" speaks of a staggering ignorance of art outside the white Western male canon, and implies that everything else exists only in relation to it.
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Mr. Roberts's inclinations run slightly brighter and less implacable than Coltrane's did, but the album — which will presumably provide some grist for these performances — attests to both the hospitality of these compositions and Mr. Roberts's fluency as an interpreter.
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First, while pressuring social media companies to take information warfare seriously, the public and the media will need to take steps to make ourselves less vulnerable to influence campaigns, by increasing our fluency with disinformation and media manipulation tactics.
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Anyone who works with A.I. systems knows that behind the facade of humanlike visual abilities, linguistic fluency and game-playing prowess, these programs do not — in any humanlike way — understand the inputs they process or the outputs they produce.
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Which may in turn inspire a sudden fluency during your next dinner party with such nominated names as Raf Simons, the savior of Calvin Klein, and Virgil Abloh, founder of Off/White and Kanye West's creative director, among others.
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But here, as in other recent work, he has pared down his dance language, and it is thrilling to watch at close range as the dancers' limbs extend in space while their torsos curve and buckle with improbable fluency.
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Her political and cultural fluency, as well as her deep familiarity with the landscape, allow her to become "a human ear" as Svetlana Alexievich calls it, recording the tragic absurdities of daily life that give way to dark humor.
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And in their racial diversity, attitudes toward religion and culture, their digital fluency and their political priorities, this emerging generation -- usually called the post-millennials, sometimes labeled Generation Z -- might shake American life even more profoundly than the millennials.
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Mr. McBride's is a feat of fluency and technique, similarly expansive: improvisation on rapid chord changes at a fast tempo — around 360 beats per minute — running as a thread through much of the song, interrupted by short piano or drum solos.
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But for a number of reasons—his patrician charm, his fluency in French and English, and, most of all, his distinctive name—Boutros-Ghali managed to infiltrate pop culture in a way that Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon never did.
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"Given Mr. Hunter's skill set, fluency in Spanish and his general familiarity with South and Central America, he would make an ideal candidate for classified missions involving a small group of highly trained, heavily armed and mobile troops," Kirton wrote.
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One more thing: Just reading the President's tweets about Turkey and Syria ("I, in my great and unmatched wisdom"), should be enough to indicate that he is not making decisions from a point of foreign policy fluency -- or even basic coherence.
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Members of this class have a high level of fluency in English, watch movies and series on Netflix, communicate with their friends via Whatsapp, own a range of digital devices and are active users of Facebook and other social media platforms.
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Over 70 percent of the population speaks Mandarin, but there levels of fluency in west China are 20 percent lower than in the east, with only 40 percent of people able to speak Mandarin in some rural areas, Zhu said.
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Incapable of fully showing up for the person she loves (in this, she resembles Halberstadt's narrator), paralyzed with guilt and fear, Hempel's protagonist wins us nonetheless with her fluency in "the language of grief," her wit and her searing clarity.
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If a Democrat wins, Mr. Buttigieg would almost certainly be on the list for a cabinet post, perhaps for a job drawing on his military service, like defense secretary, or on his language fluency, like ambassador to the United Nations.
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He has called for creating a government-backed health insurance option and for aggressively regulating consumer data online, and speaks with fluency about the threats posed to young people by climate change and the replacement of human workers by machines.
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My grandmother went to Boston University and then had a long career at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where her fluency in four languages made her well-suited to work as a reference librarian in modern languages.
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The two companies, along with Tencent, are going head to head in a lucrative market where Chinese internet companies are finding success with payment services and other online financial products that cater to an expanding middle class with increasing digital fluency.
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Research has found that sometimes spoilers can increase what we call "processing fluency," which means that knowing what's going to happen ahead of time makes it easier to make sense of the events that are actually taking place in the story.
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Fluency across styles — from the tropical reggaeton beat of "Sorry" to the Prince-inflected minimalism of Ms. Gomez's new single, "Hands to Myself" — has kept Ms. Michaels and Mr. Tranter from being pigeonholed, or even linked to their various hits by many listeners.
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Some of the factors that might increase the odds of worse outcomes after five years include the brain injury diagnosis as well as pre-injury intelligence, motor strength, verbal fluency and neurobehavioral symptoms like headache, insomnia, fatigue and depression, the study also found.
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The meeting with the Trumps also put a new spotlight on Empress Masako, as noted by the New York Times: Social media users lauded her multilingual fluency and newly international prominence after years of suffocating scrutiny about her ability to have children.
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The top layer of the state is stocked with first-rate technocrats, brought in by the president, who has used her fluency in aid jargon (from time spent at the UN and World Bank) to make Liberia a darling of Western donors.
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McKend says Google is already working on laying down a similar amount of cable in Ghana, and that the effort is part of a larger push into Africa that includes providing cheaper access to Android smartphones and training African workers in digital fluency.
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The age of the digital native - children born into technology, resulting in a natural fluency - is without a doubt, a beneficial point of technological advance, however, the rate at which these advances emerge, vastly outpaces the senior citizen's ability to grasp it.
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"The white working class still has a deficit of 700,000 jobs because they live in places where businesses can't fly to, drive to, or get a metro to," he added, arguing his fluency in those issues helps him connect with those Americans.
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Shows like Chef's Table are great and wonderful and have elevated the everyday person's fluency in restaurants and cooking, but what Chef John does is prove that an alternative exists to all that glamour and sexiness if you're just a regular person.
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It is vital that the CIA get these officers close to their areas of responsibility where they can better understand the political landscape, gain fluency in languages and develop deep insight of cultures, which they will never get if based at Langley.
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"Samantha's fluency in connecting with consumers in digital, social and video will give Glamour fans the content they love, and in ways that are most meaningful to them," Robert A. Sauerberg Jr., the chief executive of Condé Nast, said in a statement.
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Trump's most recent immigration proposal would revamp the current legal immigration system, which currently prioritizes immigrants with family ties to the US. The new green card system would instead favor immigrants with high levels of education, English-language fluency, and professional skills.
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Democrats are the party of tradition, if it's interpreted — and it should be — to mean a news media that operates without fear of government interference, an internet to which access isn't tiered, judicial appointees who have a modicum of fluency in trial law.
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The senator, gregarious in person, has passed most of his Washington down time reading, he said, holding forth with fluency on chronic disease management and flood insurance and expressing broad support for President Trump, with whom he campaigned before his December victory.
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But also there's a reason why I write about it quite a bit about in my book, and there's a reason why I discuss it whenever it comes up — because I learned a lot there and it shaped my fluency in business issues.
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This partly has to do with the director Rupert Goold's tantalizing evocation of a tribe on the edge of a devouring cosmos, and also with the irresistible fluency of the seven performers playing friends gathered in the dead of a wintry night.
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The 21-year-old University of Minnesota computer sciences student is among a fast-growing group of students globally that are adding classroom experience in foreign countries to enhance their cultural understanding, increase language fluency and give them a boost in the competition for jobs.
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Mr. Cruz's campaign insists he is uniquely suited to bring younger voters into the Republican tent — with both a libertarian streak that can attract a loyal campus following and a cache of pop-culture references deployed with the fluency of a mostly self-aware professor.
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BlackRock also said it will expect that at companies in sectors associated with climate risk such as oil producers, miners or real estate companies, all directors should "have demonstrable fluency in how climate risk affects the business" and how a given company will address it.
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Dr O'Connor and Dr Cheema wondered whether making repeated evaluations led judges to feel that their decisions became easier, and if so, whether this increased fluency ultimately led them, unknowingly, to view the evaluation process and evaluations encountered late in a sequence more favourably.
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And on the face of it, the political uproar following the Brussels attacks should play to the Democratic front-runner's strengths, given her fluency with foreign policy as a former secretary of state and two-and-a-half decades of experience on the world stage.
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The use of Nolito on the left, cutting in to link up with Alvaro Morata, has restored a fluency to the team, and while they may not quite be the pass-and-move machine of four years ago, the victory over Turkey was highly impressive.
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Successful test takers will receive a certificate of achievement, which gives language students a way to attest to their English fluency level when applying for jobs, to use on their LinkedIn profiles, measure their preparation ahead of formal tests or simply judge their personal progress.
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A minimum age of 21 years old, a height of at least 5-foot-1403, an arm reach of about 7 feet on tiptoes to reach those overhead bins, fluency in English, at least a high-school degree, and no visible tattoos when in uniform.
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Hillary Clinton named Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia to be her running mate Friday, selecting a battleground-state politician with working-class roots and a fluency in Spanish, traits that she believes can bolster her chances to defeat Donald J. Trump in November. Mrs.
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"He added: "He is keen to build on the company's success in Asia and if there is any way in which I, given my long experience of the region with fluency in Japanese and Korean, can assist him, I am keen to do so.
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A devout fan of Twin Peaks, Deadly Premonition and Lynch, experiencing Mizzurna had such an unexpectedly profound affect on Evie that she wanted to spread the word to others, leading her to start a narrated playthrough on Youtube for players lacking fluency in Japanese.
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It can take time to gain fluency in a subject, and even more time for participants to muster the candor required to roll back official propaganda, evasions, omissions and lies, and then to erode the nostalgia that settles around too many airbrushed historical accounts.
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"The policy preferences of a foreign country are taking precedence over the needs of Bahia's students, who have benefited from her knowledge and her fluency in multiple languages," said Gadeir Abbas, a lawyer with the Council on American-Islamic Relations who is representing Ms. Amawi.
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Their cape, and the responsibilities that went with it, passed to my shoulders: I learned English and gained the cultural fluency that my family now came to depend on to answer all the questions that they had answered for me in the Soviet Union.
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At the Frank LaMere Presidential Candidate Forum here, she leaned on both, again showing off her fluency on the core issue at stake for this audience -- federal policy concerning Native Americans, and the many ways in which the government has let down or betrayed tribes.
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It includes a visceral sense of navigation, an operational understanding of weather and weather information, the ability to form mental maps of traffic flows, fluency in the nuance of radio communications and, especially, a deep appreciation for the interplay between energy, inertia and wings.
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When Dionne describes the swamp maples that make a cabin invisible from the air, or the way one digs chicory taproots, then washes, dries and grinds them to make a coffee substitute, it seems effortless, plain that her fluency has a deeper source than Wikipedia.
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And while many say they have been impressed with Buttigieg's intelligence and fluency, it's common for them to say his time has not yet come -- even if his energy fans the doubts that even some Biden supporters hold about whether his time has passed.
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Others complain that he lacks fluency in policy details and delegates heavy lifting to his chief deputy, Matthew Pottinger, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and Marine who is among a handful of White House aides to survive all three years of Mr. Trump's presidency.
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At 37, he's got Harvard, Oxford, fluency in Norwegian and ability to play Gershwin on his resume, but he wants the role of messenger from middle America and essentially told those people on the coasts and in the cities to stop coming off as superior.
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"He's someone who has the mental acuity and the energy and the fluency to be talking all day long and to pretty much always say what he meant to say, and to react to things spontaneously with some precision and eloquence and wit," said Bruni.
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" The Houston-based organizer, who joined Democracy Spring earlier this year, spoke about the theory of "nonviolent direct action" with a post-graduate fluency, explaining that the protests are "fundamentally about tension and conflict," and "creating the clearest picture, so that our action tells the story itself.
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Their judgment of whether immigrants should be allowed to stay in the US is based less on those immigrants' legal status than on other factors like their education, fluency in English, and ethnicity; they're less concerned about immigrants taking jobs than about immigrants disrespecting the flag.
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New Accenture research shows that across developed and developing markets, digital fluency — or having the capabilities/competency needed to carry out internet-related functions — is the single most critical factor in closing the pay gap, because it increases the chances of more women getting paid work.
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But his gifts were certified by an Irish scholar and a British philologist, Charles William Russell and Thomas Watts, who set a standard for fluency that is still useful in vetting the claims of modern Mezzofantis: Can they speak with an unstilted freedom that transcends rote mimicry?
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Watch More From VICE: Munchies: Anthony Bourdain Those who drank more also performed worse on lexical fluency tests, with a 14 percent reduction in performance over 30 years in those who drank between 7 and 14 units each week, compared to those who drank the least.
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This music marks a return to traditional virtues like speed, fluency with rhyme, and sounding awake, but select stylistic developments from neoambient rap persist: comedic ad-libs, the strategic use of empty musical space and of trap keyboards as metronomes, although the metronomic beats are now faster.
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Her fluency in European and American baking traditions are there everywhere, from the almond-and-aniseed nougat bars piled by the register to our cheesecakes, cupcakes, madeleines and scones, which all sit beside the cakes I grew up eating, like the syrup-soaked semolina cake here.
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He envied the "gush of prose" he attributed to two of his rivals, John Updike and Saul Bellow, but lamented his own writing process as a grueling "fight for my fluency" that dragged on sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph, until the novel reached the finish line.
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Even as Elena's arsonist history seems artificially imposed and her instant fluency with child psychology somewhat unearned, the author lures the reader toward her sentimental denouement with the assurance of a seasoned storyteller and a radar-like feel for the pull and push of parent and offspring.
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While praising Warren, the Massachusetts senator, as a "gifted storyteller" who "speaks elegantly of how the economic system is rigged against all but the wealthiest Americans," the board also acknowledged her commitment to structural reform and ending corruption as well as her fluency in foreign policy.
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Against a backdrop of worsening race relations and decreasing religious tolerance, the sultan has applauded the contributions of Johor's Chinese and Indian minorities, bemoaned his countrymen's fading fluency in English and condemned the creeping Arabisation of its once moderate Muslim culture, notes Frances Hutchinson of ISEAS, a think-tank.
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Press headlines after the debate focused on Mr Pence's greater fluency and air of authority, on Mr Kaine's nervousness, and on the theory that Democrats could console themselves that, at least, the Republican on stage spent much of his time being invited to defend Mr Trump's nastiest insults.
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Press headlines after the debate focused on Mr Pence's greater fluency and air of authority, on Mr Kaine's nervousness, and on the theory that Democrats could console themselves that at least the Republican on stage spent much of his time being invited to defend Mr Trump's nastiest insults.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The fluency of concept and form in Scriptive Formalities, Paul D'Agostino's new, bifurcated show at Life on Mars in Bushwick, marks a further consolidation of his rigorous attention to language and the infinity of ways it can be parsed, subverted, and remade.
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Trump announced the broad outlines of an immigration plan Thursday, one that revisits calls to overhaul the legal immigration system, cuts back family-based immigration for "merit-based" immigration, and changes the nation's green card system to prioritize high levels of education, English-language fluency, and professional skill.
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" According to DOL data, this job is expected to grow by 2023 percent in 10 years, but "job opportunities are expected to be best for those who have a graduate degree or a certification, specialized expertise, fluency in a foreign language, or a talent for sales and public relations.
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Fluency stopped being my goal a while ago, when I realized that trying to master several different foreign languages in the span of a few months would only be another stress-inducing, insurmountable project, exactly the sort of thing that led me to seek distractions in the first place.
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The film's star, Zain Al Rafeea, is a young Syrian refugee from a poor family who Ms. Labaki said had grown up largely on the streets, developing an eye-watering fluency in profanity that topped even that of his character, whose every third word seems to be a curse.
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Directing requires a unique blend of skills and personality traits — diplomacy, the ability to galvanize and inspire, a balance of steadfastness and flexibility, fluency across departments and communication styles, to name a few — but none of those skills has a damn thing to do with gender, race, or sexual identity.
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Painted mainly in yellows, it percolates with horizontal, vertical, zigzag and circular brushstrokes, supplemented by dabs and swirls overlaid with drips and drizzles of red, sea-blue, bright green, and pink, an eruptive and bubbling surface that coheres with the patient viewer's unfolding fluency in the brushwork's measured and predictable patterns.
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Today, lottery winners with little education, job skills, English fluency and work experience can hit the jackpot and promptly come (or stay) here permanently, while millions of American citizens and legal residents must wait years for their family members to be allowed to join them, dividing families and motivating illegal immigration.
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Neckbeard Deathcamp uses their fluency in 4chan-spawned meme-speak to fight troll fire with fire (their literal tagline is "fedora-crushing militant black metal") while Gaylord draws on a more exasperated, dry British wit and general trollishness to get the point across("Nice Sun Cross Tattoo, Asshole" is a nice example).
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"USCIS and the Pentagon ending expedited naturalization at BCT locations is very, very disappointing because the Army used this incentive as a recruiting tool and are now backing off their promise," said Harminder Saini, a 24-year-old US Army recruit who immigrated from India and was recruited for his fluency in Punjabi.
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Trump touts his social media fluency as a way to communicate directly with his supporters and the public, but the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit wrote that it cuts both ways: As long as he's using his account for official purposes and creating a "public forum," the First Amendment applies.
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In a memorable scene toward the essay's end — and it seems crucial that Chee's work moves in scenes, driven as much by novelistic description as by a rhetorical bottom line — he uses his newfound fluency in Spanish to convince a couple of party guests that he is a boy called Alejandro from Tijuana.
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The work, "La Nuit S'Achève" ("The Night Ends") is a sextet to Beethoven's stormy Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, known as the "Appassionata" (played by Alain Planès); it shows Mr. Millepied's trademark fluency and skill in its smoothly evolving transitions from complex ensemble interactions to pas de deux tender or tempestuous.
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While the debates in a "normal" election year mainly serve to solidify both sides' support for their candidate, this year's debates could be a potentially huge reckoning for Mr. Trump, who may have gotten off a few zingers during the primary debates, but who has nowhere near the policy fluency that Mrs.
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The woman, dancing next, had one-legged open-armed balances that especially smacked of Western academic dance; the second man had a new kind of fluency in big sweeping phrases that took him across the stage; the final man had wonderful rotations of the pelvis and determined quarter-turns (south, east, north, west).
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Fans of turn-of-the-century outfits like 112 and Jagged Edge can hear Faiyaz's fluency with boy-group harmonies, but his breakout album, "Sonder Son," which arrived in October, suggests that the singer has broader ambitions—it's a self-aware pop-soul record that's concerned less with parties than with parents and politics.
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It is a triumphal narrative of how determination, charm, readiness and linguistic fluency allowed the author to penetrate one of the world's most insular societies, beginning as an enthusiast for the country's avant-garde culture and ultimately becoming part of that culture, performing as the Midnight Cowboy with Kara Juro's Situation Theater (Jokyo Gekijo).
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The long years between those bookend events shaped the politician Ms. Merkel would become: cautious, calculating, yet also idealistic; deeply suspicious of Russia, if fascinated by it, having studied Russian literature and culture and attained enough of a fluency in the language to win a prize and travel around the Soviet Union as a student.
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A book like White Noise didn't just freeze the life of its time so that later readers can access it through a pale blue filter; in its reverence, comedy, and seriousness about death and TV, White Noise could thaw out the present day, grant a young reader fluency in the reality surrounding his or her own, entirely current life.
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Overall, 29 percent of the people with ALS had problems with their thinking skills, with the most common problems occurring on the test of verbal fluency, where people list as many items as they can that start with a certain letter, and the test of executive functioning, such as paying attention to two things at once.
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Still, I was attracted partly to the job itself (GQ Russia, owned by Condé Nast, combined the swagger of the American GQ with the high-minded gloss of Vanity Fair), partly to the chance to give my infant daughter a native fluency in Russian and partly to the prospect of social change that hung in the Moscow air.
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That fluency echoes what has become clear when BTS members have broken off for cross-border solo collaborations — say, RM on the "Seoul Town Road" remix of Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" or J-Hope's update, with Becky G, of Webstar and Young B's proto-viral 2006 hit "Chicken Noodle Soup" (with a remarkably exuberant video).
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