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fluently

[ floo-uhnt-lee ]

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adverb

smoothly, relatively rapidly, and easily, with few or no errors:
Herbert Hoover moved his family to China before becoming president, and he and his wife learned to speak Mandarin Chinese fluently.
I can type as fluently as Rubenstein played the piano.
with easy and graceful motion or with smooth, natural transitions:
Her small yet strong body moved fluently through the woods as if part of it.
Moving fluently from personal to public history, his poetry has been acclaimed for both its candor and its authority.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fluently¹

fluent ( def ) + -ly

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Carola says she and her brothers were first-generation Latinos who spoke Spanish fluently but felt that the term Chicano didn’t belong to them.

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Bouchier, who missed the opening match with a neck injury, played fluently for her 33 from 36 balls as South Africa offered her far too much width on both sides of the wicket.

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Now living in La Verne, she wants to ensure her baby can speak both English and Spanish fluently.

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But his options felt limited: He has a high school education from Mexico, but doesn’t speak English fluently and wasn’t comfortable using a computer.

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Rubio was on the long list to be Trump’s wingman in this election, because he’s a household name, can articulate Trumpism fluently in Spanish and represents Florida, a swing state.

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