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Example sentences for: aptitude

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The WP lead explains that the Army's new educational initiative is particularly well suited to Hispanics, who make up 40 percent of those potential recruits who show high military aptitude despite lacking a high-school diploma, and to deployed soldiers, who, it is thought, should be able to keep up with course work via Internet-aided "distance learning" far better than they could via traditional classroom-based coursework.
The industry has a magnificent aptitude for escaping defeat.
The Dallas Morning News reported that Bush nearly flunked the Air Force pilot aptitude test but "scored high as a future leader."
Given the whiteness of those images and the long history of denying intellectual aptitude to African-Americans, it's surely good news that in America today, the word "intellectual" is as likely to evoke Cornel West as Susan Sontag.
Also, a story says chimps may have better language aptitude than previously thought.