as in proficiency
a state of having mastery of or proficiency in a skill
The students demonstrated fluency in the language by the end of their year abroad.
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At the time of the brain scans, researchers conducted cognitive tests to assess working memory, executive function, and fluency (the ease with which the brain processes information).
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Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Based on the massive size of the available data, the AI computationally patterns on how humans utilize natural language and mathematically mimics the same appearance of fluency.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Britain's embassy in Kyiv said at the start of 2025 that the U.K. had trained 200 Ukrainian flight personnel—not just fast jet pilots—in skills like ground operations and boosting English fluency, the latter one of the biggest hurdles for the trainee pilots to overcome.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
That fluency was on full display recently in Ms. Tracy Butts' third-grade classroom.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025
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Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Based on the massive size of the available data, the AI computationally patterns on how humans utilize natural language and mathematically mimics the same appearance of fluency.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
Britain's embassy in Kyiv said at the start of 2025 that the U.K. had trained 200 Ukrainian flight personnel—not just fast jet pilots—in skills like ground operations and boosting English fluency, the latter one of the biggest hurdles for the trainee pilots to overcome.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
That fluency was on full display recently in Ms. Tracy Butts' third-grade classroom.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for fluency
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“Fluency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fluency. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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