knack
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Its author, Gail Crowther, has a knack for finding new angles on unhappy literary women, including Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
While Patchett has clearly drawn on actual events and individuals to produce this luminous work, she exhibits the expert novelist’s knack for following a plot where the imagination takes it.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
Yet he possesses an uncanny knack for actually hitting the ball straight.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Wes Streeting had the knack of displaying empathy and understanding of people's health challenges and frustration at NHS failings and delays.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
‘If any one of them is waking up, he will gobble you down before you can say knack jife,’ the BFG answered, grinning hugely.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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