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dextrous

adjective

Chiefly British.

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He went on to make 55 appearances as Liverpool won the double, laying on the league-clinching goal with a dextrous and clever flick-volley pass.

Thanks to clever brains and dextrous suckers, they can also open locks, unscrew jars and even untie surgical sutures.

When asked how long they would remain if restrictions on migration were relaxed, 62% said they would stay "for ever".As they age, migrants may no longer be suitable for factory jobs that require dextrous fingers, or for some construction work, which requires a strong back.

It will take some dextrous diplomacy to keep all these far-flung island states together under antipodean leadership.

The current crisis of leadership is worrying, to be sure: without dextrous and steely hands in charge, the Russian machine of state is always prone to splutter and grind.

The past few weeks, in particular, have seen a sequence of events that could yet prove to be the tipping point that turned dextrous but limited industrial robots into handy helpmates around the home.Writing in Scientific American in December 2006, Bill Gates pondered the parallels between the PC industry in its early days and the fledgling robotics industry today.

Cheaper, more user-friendly and more dextrous robots are currently spreading into factories around the world, and they cost just the same in America as they do in China.

But the Americans may be getting more dextrous.

As a result, many pregnant women in the West take supplements that contain the nutrient.In recent years the role of fatty acids such as omega-3, present in oily fish including salmon and sardines, has been identified as important in producing children who are bright, dextrous and sociable.

Not all primates have similarly dextrous hands; only the catarrhines (Old World monkeys, apes, and humans) and a few of the lemurs and lorises have an opposable thumb.

Designed by Bristol firm Open Bionics, it is substantially more dextrous than the rudimentary NHS prosthetic he acquired following his accident.

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