He had become adept at judging his friend's state over the years.

With Rugby World Cup success, Japan have become adept at saying nothing

Our annual delegation have become adept at making sure it is remembered.

And they must become adept at analogy-atseeing one thing in terms of another.

Every writer of special articles should become adept in the use of a camera.

But Democrats say Trump administration officials have become adept at running out the clock.

They are not sufficiently cultured to have become adept in hypocrisy, treason and dissimulation.

At the time though, she had become adept at hiding what was going on.

Some correspondents become adept in coupling up the news of the day with their products.

Dealmakers have become adept at structuring their inversions to fall just outside of the thresholds.

He had become adept at intercepting potential emotional crises.

Likewise, the Taliban have become adept at exploiting civilian casualty reports in their own propaganda war.

It took me several days to become adept.

By that time Corelli and Louise had become adept at preparing themselves for the oncoming trains.

He'd become adept at speed-reading headlines, skipping over those with no bearing on what he wanted.

He was too old, too firmly moulded, to become adept at expressing himself in new ways.