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[ey-buhl] / ˈeɪ bəl /




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With a larger sample, astronomers may be able to learn much more about how dark matter behaves and how it is distributed.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

The ban has been difficult for Australia to enforce, and it has been widely acknowledged that many children under the age of 16 have still been able to access and use banned apps.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Builders like Lennar and PulteGroup were optimistic earlier this year that they might finally be able to reduce profit-sapping incentives like mortgage-rate buydowns.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

But in the last three years, the Altadena resident hasn’t been able to find a steady job in post-production.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

In the store, I prided myself on being able to talk up a customer until I figured out what they liked and what they didn’t know they needed.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Rothbard blamed Smith’s celebrity for blotting out the better work of abler minds, but Turgot had kept his genius mainly to himself.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

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

“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

One of these young men was Cyril Ramaphosa, the general secretary of the National Union of Mine Workers and one of the ablest of the new generation of leadership.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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