With time, reporters not only acquire expertise, they learn how to read danger signals.
But he possessed a nose for a story and by his own endeavours acquired expertise.
Wall Street has ignored biotechnology since 1991, and firms will need time to acquire expertise.
Through the 1890s and into the 20th century, he would acquire ever-greater expertise in his chosen field.
Mere exposure does not seem to suffice for acquiring expertise.
He then went to Burma on his family's business, acquiring expertise in banking.
Certainly in the management of large science projects, managers will work hard to acquire interactional expertise quickly.
He wasn't all that good at them, lacking, among other things, the time to acquire true expertise.
What he sees is a young man acquiring not technical expertise so much as the ability to make the noises of a businessman.
At an early age, he acquired botanical expertise working in the family nursery.