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[ey-buhl] / ˈeɪ bəl /




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"International courts and tribunals must be able to freely carry out their mandates," he added.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

“Markets have been able to overlook the increase in yields so far…because we’ve had this earnings boom,” said Keith Lerner, chief investment officer at Truist Advisory Services.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

"Some coins were quite well stuck. He found if he got them to move at all, if he worked them forward and back, eventually he would be able to get them out. "

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

If that happens, MarketWatch readers will be able to scoop up the stock at bargain levels.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

With my eyes on income-and-outlay, the shop was doing better and soon we were able to hire a saleslady to preside over the front room while Father and I worked in back.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Jimmy Carter was one of the abler residents, in his mid-seventies—too able for tracing letters.

From The New Yorker Oct. 1, 2018

This leaves the real study of real economics, in the real world, wide open for abler minds.

From Forbes Apr. 17, 2015

A Department of Education report found that abler children are indeed being kept back because of the "boredom, disenchantment and indiscipline" of mixed-ability comprehensive classes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hubert Humphrey or Dwight Eisenhower or Lyndon Johnson would never have been able to compact his message into two minutes -- each was a rambler -- but they were abler politicians than this lot.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Getting Lemoncello to cancel these so-called Olympic Games? Couldn’t have done it in an abler manner myself.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

Cox proved to be Young’s ablest intelligence gatherer, even if the occasional bribes she endorsed put her agents at needless risk.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s chief Supreme Court lawyer, is widely considered one of the ablest high-court advocates.

From Seattle Times Feb. 6, 2024

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, he described Ms Sturgeon as being "one of the ablest communicators in politics".

From BBC Feb. 7, 2023

In September 1948, a State Department report portrayed Ho as "the strongest and perhaps the ablest figure in Indochina," and said that "any suggested solution which excludes him is an expedient of uncertain outcome."

From Salon Nov. 5, 2022

Toward the end, a total of eighteen men were assigned to the case full time, among them three of the K.B.I.’s ablest investigators—Special Agents Harold Nye, Roy Church, and Clarence Duntz.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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