Sentence examples for instead of competent from inspiring English sources

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Dyslexic children made twice as many word substitution errors (e.g. travelled instead of traversed) and 50% more nonword substitution errors (e.g. compendent instead of competent) than control children, with 95% of the latter and 76% of the word substitutions occurring on LF words.

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Coker plays like the liability he was early in the season instead of the competent game manager he has become down the stretch.

Instead of competing, collaborate.

In light of the ensemble's enthusiasm for "Dim Sum" and other imaginative projects, a listener would have preferred to hear more contemporary works instead of the highly competent but mostly unmemorable performances of Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 1 and Dvorak's String Quartet No. 14.

I opened this book, Gollner's first, expecting the standard nutmeat of competent nonfiction and found instead something lustrous and exhilarating.

Mary Robinson, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, has called for the United States to recognize its captives at Guantánamo Bay as prisoners of war and to send them before a "competent tribunal" instead of acting unilaterally.

But after this week, the election year is over, and the cable news talking heads will have go back to speaking to competent people, instead of "strategists".

What the Philippines needs isn't a new set of laws, or another autocrat, but instead a competent state, which can actually implement a wide array of existing laws.

It was soon recognized that Fbxo15 was not an ideal selection gene, and thus later, with the use of Nanog or Pou5f1 instead of Fbxo15 for selection, germline-competent iPSCs very similar to ESCs were generated in multiple labs [15 17].

I'm not a hot rodder, and this is obviously not a sport coupe, but I'd prefer a vehicle that feels crisp instead of flighty, eager instead of merely competent.

So instead of worrying about whether they're competent and responsible, parents can focus on compatibility.

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