Sentence examples for operate competently from inspiring English sources
"operate competently" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English
It typically means to perform a task or duty with skill and proficiency. Example: The new employee was able to operate the complicated machinery competently after just a few days of training.
According to a paper published in 2014 in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the more humanlike the car's alert features — name, voice, gender — the more people trust it to operate competently, as a human driver would.
Presumably she in fact judged that her particular surgeon would operate competently, but still had a critical and suspicious attitude to surgeons.
It is well known that the biological characteristics of these carcinomas are generally mild and the prognosis is excellent if operated on competently.
Technical problems in the past 12 months have raised serious concerns about Iran's capacity to competently operate the facility.
If leaders felt more valued for their contribution and were able to competently operate in their role, they would be much less defensive about relinquishing power and control.
Michael LeVine, senior Pacific counsel for the environmental advocacy group Oceana, said that government regulators were too lax in allowing the program to go forward without adequate assurances that Shell could operate safely and competently.
The electric-car company is demonstrating that it can competently ramp up production and operate consistently, said Thilo Koslowski, an analyst at Gartner Inc.
"We have confidence – both from the bid that they put together but also looking at the successful contracts they have operated in Australia, Canada and USA – that Maximus are able to deliver these assessments competently over the next three years," he told the House of Commons.
Nonetheless, he says, the findings also suggest that "competently run programs" work.
