proficiency
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WSJ: The Transportation Department has recently introduced many regulatory changes to the trucking industry, including enforcing regulations on truck drivers’ English-language proficiency and other rules that reduce the pool of drivers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Don’t feel that you have to have reached a certain proficiency before you start reaching out to others.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Behind it all are tens of thousands of hours of handcrafted proficiency.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
All the buzz recently about AI-trained robots relates to humanoids that can move freely in their environment and learn to do tasks at human levels of proficiency, thanks to AI computing.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
The imperative to raise the general level of technical proficiency had only grown stronger as the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union grew more inflamed.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Vocabulary lists containing proficiency
Power Prefix: pro
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"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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Twelve Years a Slave
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