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ably

adverb as in capably

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As Ms. Aikin ably traces, successive librarians have delicately navigated the library’s continually expanding national role.

Starc took 3-24 off eight overs as he ably shouldered the extra burden of an attack missing injured long-time partners Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood.

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Up front Joe Heyes, ably assisted by Fin Baxter, was superb at scrum-time and bitingly sharp in defence.

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Happy to live out the rest of his days in his remote paradise alongside his loyal dog Birba, who ably assists him in his truffle hunts, Igor is displeased that Dalia has rejected her family roots for the big city.

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He ably navigates contentious personalities, shifting alliances and tense rivalries among men and women who, although they shared views about slavery, tussled over conventional politics, communitarian living, marriage and pacifism between the 1820s and the Civil War.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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