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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a talent of" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It can be used when referring to a specific skill or ability that someone possesses, but it is more typical to use "a talent for" instead.
Example: "She has a talent for painting that captivates everyone who sees her work."
Alternatives: "a gift for" or "an aptitude for".
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SHE is clearly a talent of enormous potential".
Did growing up surrounded by all that art give Charles a talent of his own?
Not a lot of people have heard of him, but Italia is a talent of the times.
It is a talent of the prime minister to appear as a reasonable guy and one saying we have heard on occasion from him seems to encapsulate that.
But the Russian hockey authorities were angry that a talent of Malkin's magnitude had gone to the Penguins, basically for free.
A talent of immodest proportions can sometimes sit uncomfortably on a modest owner – and so it came to be with Bert.
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"He worked on B budgets, but he was a class-A talent of the first order". A rugged, dynamic man known for his wit and candor, Boetticher was a colorful raconteur, who relished telling stories of his drinking, carousing, Hollywood battles and other adventures.
The first is developing a talent network of a business — "the talent graph of a company," he calls it.
This is a shame, because Liversidge is an offbeat talent of a very British kind.
Contemporaries such as General William Irvine criticized Howe as "having a talent ... of finding many supposed obstructions, and barely plausible pretences for his delay" in assaulting Verplanck's Point.
Some people considered him an intellectual and a powerhouse talent of the future.
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