fluency

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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Recent Examples of fluency Each of these builds relevance that drives fluency. Kirk Wakefield, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 The two go over strategies to increase speech fluency and volume. Laura A. Bischoff, USA Today, 6 Apr. 2025 Organizations must: • Equip senior leaders with AI literacy and digital fluency. Motasem El Bawab, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025 That’s how generative AI and LLMs mimic fluency in natural language. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 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 29 Apr. 2025.

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