How to Use talent in a Sentence

talent

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  • The company is doing a talent search to find the right person for the job.
  • There are many good players on the team, but she's a special talent.
  • Her artistic talent has been obvious ever since she was a child.
  • The company has hired some expensive legal talent for the trial.
  • His experience, skills, and talents make him perfectly suited for the job.
  • Dafna draws and loves to sing and has a talent for arts and crafts.
    — NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The teams seem evenly matched from a talent standpoint.
    — Rex Nelson, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • There’s a surge of young talent taking the blues in fresh directions.
    — Joe Bonamassa, Spin, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The Sox need a lot more talent in the system to get this rebuild off the ground, and no player would net more than Robert.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2024
  • Somehow, the scheme has turned Derwin James, a great talent, into just a guy.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Filling their shoes won’t be easy, but there’s still plenty of talent on the roster.
    — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This gives you an edge in recruiting and bringing in top talent.
    — Kara Dennison, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • This three-day event will showcase Black voices and talent.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2024
  • Finding any kind of impact talent will be tough this late in the recruiting process.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Over the years, Gossett became a generational talent on the screen and stage.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • From a talent perspective, there’s little question Smith can play in the NHL.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Wellesley enters the season ranked No. 1 in the Globe’s girls’ cross-country Top 20, thanks to a huge influx of young talent the past two years.
    — Matty Wasserman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The talent and swagger and thrust of the Corvette flow from a philosophy that is very much different from the others.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
  • So who exactly will be the next lottery talent to join Houston in June's draft?
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 17 May 2023
  • The Louisville coaches, McDermott said, were intrigued about the upside of a player with his size and talent.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Oklahoma City Thunder The Thunder is a team of the future with their talent, youth and future draft picks.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • The mission was to find the most incredible lineup of talent this world has ever seen.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2023
  • While Olympia appears to have inherited her mom's tennis talent, the 6-year-old isn't quite as big of a fan of the game as the rest of her family.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
  • But the league will only get better with better talent, and American players want to help the sport grow here, so some choose to stay home.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But such is life when a team is loaded with talent and short on experience.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • Some of the new talent on the Democratic side might, not long ago, have simply been Republicans.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • One of the pay TV’s most crucial concerns is to retain talent when most of its top directors make both movies and series.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Thicke’s oldest child’s musical talents are nothing new to the father of four.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Fiona O'Keeffe, marathon There's beginner's luck and then there's just beginner's talent.
    — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 26 July 2024
  • The first issue for TV bosses is impacting the culture of big-budget reality shows offscreen, and the handling of talent.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024

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