practiced
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Synonyms & Antonyms for practiced
Synonyms
accomplished, ace, adept, compleat, complete, consummate, crack, crackerjack, educated, experienced, expert, good, great, master, masterful, masterly, professed, proficient, skilled, skillful, versed, veteran, virtuoso
Antonyms
amateur, amateurish, inexperienced, inexpert, jackleg, unprofessional, unseasoned, unskilled, unskillful
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Troops practiced emergency first aid response and trained on the flight deck and in the aircraft carrier hangar deck, at times using guns made of rubber in battle scenarios. — Washington Post, "Warship shows Japan’s determination to expand military role," 3 July 2019 But in practiced hands, the trick shot can let a player seem to cover the entire court with relative ease, even in the most desperate situations. — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, "Mario Tennis Aces review: Turning tennis into a fighting game," 22 June 2018 Giuliani was a practiced hand at the cable TV battles. — Chris Cillizza, CNN, "The 'Donald Trump is getting sick of Rudy Giuliani' storyline is the most predictable thing ever," 8 May 2018 Crews at Mitchell International Airport were firing up massive machines that plow and sweep runways in precise, practiced movements done between takeoffs and landings of commercial jet airliners. — Joe Taschler, USA TODAY, "Airport challenge: Clearing runways a choreographed snow dance," 17 Jan. 2018 Not all of Silo’s crossover strengths — the creative bars, the practiced service, the sense of place — translated to Silo Prime. — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, "Review: Fairmount’s Silo Prime a dimmer version of Silo excellence," 8 Mar. 2018 No living conductor knows more about these scores and their historical context, has a closer regard for textual fidelity or a more practiced understanding of how to bring them to dramatic life on stage than Muti. — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, "For CSO season finale, Riccardo Muti offers an Italian opera fest fit for a king," 23 June 2017 Given his years on Breaking Bad, Cranston is a practiced hand at fleshing out the eccentric mind of the married man looking to shake himself out of his reverie. — David Sims, The Atlantic, "Wakefield Is a Bizarre Showcase for Bryan Cranston," 19 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'practiced.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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