innate ability

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"I have an innate ability to take good material and make it better, and to take bad material and make it fair."

From BBC • May 30, 2026

Mr. Sowell emphasized this repeatedly: The same innate ability can produce different outcomes depending on the norms that surround it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Bronstein wanted to use Byrne’s innate ability to find comic moments in unlikely places in order to capture the mordantly humorous beats in the script.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

“He has an innate ability to score,” UW coach Mike Hopkins said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2024

The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd