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ably

[ey-blee] / ˈeɪ bli /
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capably
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In a three-part profile of Hitler, she ably conveyed the Führer’s menacing appeal.

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Tergit’s spare, clear, lightly ironic prose is ably captured by the book’s translator, Sophie Duvernoy.

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But manage them, they do, and quite ably.

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Steven Osgood ably conducted the two-piano accompaniment; Jesse Barrett played the haunting oboe solos.

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As the Cosmic Weatherman, John Mburu ably demonstrated how smoothly baroque arias for bass—regardless of their original subjects—can be repurposed as howls of despair about a modern apocalypse.

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