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ability
noun as in power to act, perform
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capability, capacity, competence, intelligence, qualification, skill, strength, talent, understanding
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aptitude, competency, comprehension, dexterity, endowment, facility, faculty, might, potentiality, resourcefulness
noun as in natural or acquired power in a
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capability, expertise, ingenuity, proficiency, skill, strength, talent
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adroitness, bent, cleverness, command, craft, deftness, expertness, finesse, flair, genius, gift, handiness, knack, know-how, mastery, savvy, skillfulness
Weak matches
mind for, particular activity adeptness, the goods, the right stuff, what it takes
Example Sentences
“To me,” Chesney said in a video for the Harbaugh Coaching Academy, “it’s that ability to celebrate little successes and then you watch someone just kind of sit up a little taller, swell up a little bit more with pride and then they want to build that confidence, they want to repeat that success.”
Their ability to survive and spread in the aftermath of the dinosaur extinction makes them a key group for understanding how reptiles adapted during a period of dramatic environmental change.
Barron’s has also written positively about Nvidia’s chances of continuing to be the dominant provider of AI chips, as well as Broadcom’s ability to become the key second player in the industry.
Many on the Street have questioned Strategy’s ability to service its preferred dividends and debt interest costs, seeing as its Bitcoin holdings generate no income and its legacy software business yields little free cash.
A senior U.S. official said a Russian base in Libya or at Port Sudan could expand its ability to project power and allow it to operate with impunity.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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