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capability

[kay-puh-bil-i-tee] / ˌkeɪ pəˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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"If we fail to build this capability, surviving as a country in our region will become difficult. Countries with sufficient preparation are not easily defied," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

While scientific experiments have been conducted on Unity, neither it nor its Delta class replacement has orbital capability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Anthropic also acknowledges it is holding itself back: its safety measures "could slow our capability gains relative to competitors that do not adopt similar constraints."

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

But progress is undeniable, and there is a clear explanation: the capability of the U.S. military.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Or was there something mixed up in their blood, maybe in their brains too, which made them capable of accomplishing prodigious feats, which seemed beyond the capability of even the best among us?

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

A veteran of the Iraq War, Driscoll made military modernization a priority during his tenure, championing initiatives to broaden the availability of drone and counterdrone capabilities among U.S. allies, according to an earlier Army announcement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The company said that this philosophy is leading clients to deploy AI more rapidly because they see the ability to retain the essence of their businesses while gaining frontier-level AI capabilities.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

In September, they completed a complex energy conservation project designed to preserve the spacecraft's remaining scientific capabilities.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Anthropic did so chiefly by training Claude to assume that it had personhood and trying to instruct it to use its capabilities ethically.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

But the complexity of nuclear physics was rapidly outstripping the capabilities of the laboratory apparatus of small science.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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