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"skilful at" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe someone or something that is proficient or adept at performing a particular task or activity. For example: "My sister is skilful at playing the piano, and can easily recognize a wide variety of musical pieces."
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And he is skilful at pretence.
Mr Bush has been skilful at raiding Democratic think-tanks for ideas.
But it strikes me that the French are particularly skilful at this.
He is wonderfully skilful at creating these sequences of counterpoised narratives.
Baron does concede, however, that Trump is "skilful" at using the media.
Look at the Irish, who have proved particularly skilful at this.
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We can distinguish, she urges, various important sub-classes among ways of being good, the useful (as in "good for" governing a verb), the skilful ("good at"), the enjoyable, the beneficial (as in "good for" governing a noun) and the morally good (Thomson 1996, 131 133).[26] All are matters of straightforward natural fact.
Walker was a skilful propagandist, adept at utilising grisly detail to grab the attention of the reader.
"I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skilful enough at it all, we'll see," he said.
Brian Kidd was a skilful player at the highest levels from 1963 to 1984.
They picture a smoke-filled room, in which unsuspecting clients are mastered by skilful opponents at investment banks known, perhaps appropriately, as dealers.
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