capability
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday called on Europe to develop its own crewed spaceflight capability within a decade as part of a broader push to strengthen the continent's space sector.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
“That kind of capability directly disrupts the operational advantage these transnational criminal organizations rely on, and it strengthens our ability to protect both Texas communities and the broader region,” he said in an email.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
“Differences in legal frameworks, cyber capability, resilience and recovery capacity across jurisdictions could therefore have consequences well beyond the jurisdiction in which an incident originates and may themselves become a source of vulnerability,” Bailey wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
What he said: “We projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
After a few days with Lawrence, Groves recognized that his process was the only one with a demonstrated capability to produce appreciable quantities of U-235.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
It’s because math happens to be useful marketing—a way to advertise the growing capabilities of their latest models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Price said newer security machines that TSA is installing to replace traditional X-ray machines have computed tomography capabilities, which "can do a much better job of detecting liquid-based explosives".
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
But computational capabilities have only recently progressed to the point scientists like Amaya have been able to model and track them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
In total, seven China-based labs attempted to learn new Claude capabilities via distillation over the past seven months, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
This would have brought about an unprecedented transformation in human capabilities and lifestyles.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Vocabulary lists containing capability
"The Declaration of Sentiments" (1848)
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Vocabulary from texts about Colin Powell
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President Obama's Speech at Hiroshima
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