competent
Many experts think children who can't read competently by the end of the third grade are in danger of school failure.
I am confident that the authorities are competently handling the case.
The book cries out for a competently edited second edition.

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Examples of competently

competently
The implied adult attachment model thus postulates that earned secures will parent as competently as continuous secures and better than insecures.
Each official of the same rank believes of each other that they will competently car r y out their duties.
This is the ability to function competently and with understanding within the musical practice of another culture.
This because it aptly emphasises that the skills must be competently applied within the professional context.
Certification could alternatively be competently carried out by other medical practitioners.
Seventy to eighty percent of the problems that patients bring to doctors could be handled equally competently by well-trained non-physicians.
The material is handled competently, but there is little new here in the way of perspective.
The minority language may be effectively transmitted and competently learned in the classroom.
The chapter begins with a very useful and competently presented discussion of 'existing words', 'new words', 'potential words', and 'probable words'.
We expected that children who showed no affect dysregulation would function most competently on outcome measures.
Risks to the program have to be balanced by the benefits achieved by competently conducted, transparent, and well-disseminated assessments.
It may be difficult to judge whether choice is exercised competently and rationally, or impossible to determine how or why a choice has been made.
This ambiguity attends the most competently designed studies and it is very difficult to see how functional neuroimaging alone could resolve it.
Its argument is sound, and it competently fills a gap in the small number of register studies which exist.
They are all competently written, and full of interesting material.
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