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- adjective proficient and confident in performance
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Examples
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While Bess is sure-handed as the punt returner and usually makes the first man miss, he only averaged 7.5 yards per return with a long of 22 and doesn't have the speed to return kickoffs.
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"Fitch excels at painting a negative personality with sure-handed depth and fairness, and her prose penetrates the inner lives of the two with immediacy and bite."
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When you want to improve your team's passing game, go get a strong-armed quarterback and some sure-handed receivers.
Rice - Team Notes 2010
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"Readers of historical fiction will be pleased with Bennett's sure-handed storytelling."
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What he does do is both clever and plausible, thanks to Connelly's cunning plotting and John Romano's sure-handed script a great leap forward after Nights in Rodanthe and Intolerable Cruelty.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Lincoln Lawyer Marshall Fine 2011
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"Readers of historical fiction will be pleased with Bennett's sure-handed storytelling."
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This rousing epic was disowned by director Stanley Kubrick after a contentious, difficult production, but "Spartacus" still offers grand-scale entertainment, thanks to bold, sure-handed direction and a powerhouse cast.
John Farr: Kirk Douglas Turns 95! John Farr 2011
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Having adapted the Elmore Leonard novels “Get Shorty” and “Out of Sight,” screenwriter Scott Frank makes a sure-handed directorial debut with this modest crime caper set in Kansas City.
Top 10 Overlooked Movies of the Last Five Years » Scene-Stealers 2009
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"Readers of historical fiction will be pleased with Bennett's sure-handed storytelling."
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"Readers of historical fiction will be pleased with Bennett's sure-handed storytelling."
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