With no formal training, he has grown proficient at rummaging through his laptop's settings and changing them to suit any number of connection options.
As a group, the Islanders had to work in an unaccustomed direction: after having only recently grown proficient at erasing what seemed to be nightly deficits, tonight they had to prevent a comeback rather than create one.
But with a running attack that grew more proficient, the Huskies ran out the clock.
The lad of ten helped his father in clearing and cultivating his land, grew "quite proficient with his rifle" in the uncleared forests around his hut, read diligently, and became "the subject of remark among the neighbouring settlers for his thoughtful ways and mental industry".
"Develop" may not be the word: he ages and he grows more proficient, but he doesn't really change.
Some subjects (cookie business, financial literacy, skill building, etc) have progression badges, where scouts earn a higher level in the same subject area as they grow increasingly proficient.
Though each played an instrument — growing more proficient with time — most of the instrumentals on their albums were supplied by studio musicians.
Erwin assumes that his readers are growing more proficient in scientific vocabulary and more familiar with the various concepts of the book as he goes forward.
We've grown highly proficient in shifting behavior and, don't get me wrong, much good has come out of these tactics.
The discombobulating style of "Breathless" isn't inadvertent, and the proof is that as Mr. Godard grew more technically proficient, his films did not become smoother, more classically "American".
