ability
Example Sentences
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Shredded was the pretense that men’s Division I basketball and football players are amateurs—and the NCAA’s ability to regulate sports.
He observes that, from an engineering perspective, it might be futile to try making machines that are fully human—after all, our various abilities have been refined through a lengthy, data-rich evolution.
The missing letters hampered autocorrect’s ability to guess what you were trying to type.
Despite the disagreements, some activists struck a more optimistic note about the party's ability to avoid damaging infighting.
From Barron's
They say his cognitive abilities "were not consistent with Alzheimer's disease", which the court heard could not be conclusively diagnosed until an autopsy could be performed after his death.
From BBC
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