as in capability
the physical or mental power to do something
as a result of the accident the once-vigorous athlete lost the ability to walk
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Recent Examples of ability
With generative AI’s ability to create new content learned from training data, CSU is working to ensure students in the nation’s largest and most diverse public university system have equitable access to the technology.
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Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
Bright spots in our nation’s ability to address this crisis are few.
—Kevin Fagan, TIME, 4 Feb. 2025
Comments The Voice has proved to be a massively successful format worldwide, allowing eager singers from dozens of countries to show off their vocal abilities.
—Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2025
McIlroy credited his ability not to get flustered with himself and to strategically work his way around an iconic course where Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, and Tiger Woods have won the U.S. Open.
—Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
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Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2025
Bright spots in our nation’s ability to address this crisis are few.
—Kevin Fagan, TIME, 4 Feb. 2025
Comments The Voice has proved to be a massively successful format worldwide, allowing eager singers from dozens of countries to show off their vocal abilities.
—Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2025
McIlroy credited his ability not to get flustered with himself and to strategically work his way around an iconic course where Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, and Tiger Woods have won the U.S. Open.
—Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ability
Noun
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The company’s mass-market brand Mona launched its first car in August with some driver-assistance capabilities.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2025
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Not everybody has capabilities to be impact players.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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All of the Razorbacks' games are expected to be streamed in some capacity.—
Sam Lane,
arkansasonline.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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LaCroix is a community capacity builder with Disability Hub MN.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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For years this has been the joke among students and faculty at campuses everywhere.—
Beth Anderson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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In the agreement, Northwestern agreed to fund two visiting Palestinian faculty members each year and scholarships for five Palestinian undergraduates for their undergraduate careers.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Each new hunt throws a curveball to keep things challenging while teaching you basic controls and combat skills.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
11 Feb. 2025
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During a short but very memorable run on The Traitors season 3, Bob the Drag Queen unexpectedly opened the library to read Zac Efron's acting skills, and now the RuPaul's Drag Race star is opening the film archive to explain why.—
Jillian Sederholm,
EW.com,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The show sees the protagonist grasp fame and then so much more, as his talent and ambitions attract the attention of renowned and powerful politicians, who use him as a spy for France.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
5 Feb. 2025
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Despite his talent, Marcus Jordan chose not to pursue a professional basketball career and instead focused on business.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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In 1966, at the height of the Vietnam War, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara instituted Project 100,000, in which recruits whose aptitude had been determined to be too low to serve in the military would be admitted and sent to fight.—
Dexter Filkins,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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But the aptitude, not to mention attitude, starts with the teaching and tone set by a one-of-a-kind force.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
2 Feb. 2025
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“Ability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ability. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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