Word Finder - ability

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Suitableness.

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The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.

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This phone has the ability to have its software upgraded wirelessly.

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The legal wherewithal to act.

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Physical power.

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Financial ability.

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A unique power of the mind; a faculty.

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A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.

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She has an uncanny ability to defuse conflict.

Freedom from that ugly feeling gave her the ability to speak of it lightly for the first time.

I can only applaud this man's ability to deduce.

Tugging at her ability to reason.

Machines multiply our labor and increase our ability to do work.

He never mastered the ability to run.

One person has the so called ability, with support from a few others.

The girl or the ability to read minds?

Your ability to heal makes you what we'd call a Natural, a human with extraordinary capabilities.

What was this sudden obsession with her ability to run the ranch, and what made him think she was qualified?

The ability of humanity to destroy is now exponentially higher.

I have the ability to levitate things.

I knew he desperately wanted to pursue Howie's never-before-encountered ability as far as it would go.

The ability of science and technology to improve human life is known to us.

People have always had the drive and the ability to build, create, discover, and explore.

Their ability to inflict carnage will rise in the future.

Perhaps it requires musical ability or style or sassiness.

She was drained but more confident in her ability to use it.

As my mate, you have the ability to draw off my power.

Tell me about your healing ability.

Some people around her know of her ability and assist her but she alone has the gift.

Betsy and I claimed world class ability while Quinn just rolled his eyes.

Even his ability to find alcohol for a party was adventurous.

You didn't have the ability to understand.

We think he might have some natural ability.

Nothing was wrong with his ability to do that.

She showed me how very foolish it would be for me to pursue a four years' course of study at Radcliffe, simply to be like other girls, when I might better be cultivating whatever ability I had for writing.

While he now had the ability to chase his past, he refused vehemently to do so.

I doubt it and Howie won't use his ability to revisit his past and learn.

What she's telling me is beyond belief and yet I know this ability exists.

We didn't have the ability to gather this many.

She has talked incessantly since her return about what she did in Huntsville, and we notice a very decided improvement in her ability to use language.

He employed all his ability and strength to do the best he could for himself and his army, as he had done previously and as he did subsequently in 1813.

It made her angrier at her mate, who systematically shut the doors around her and also managed to interfere with her ability to trust anyone else.

I guess if you give a man the ability to build his own mate, he'll make her a tramp.

My gift is the ability to manipulate minds.

Nor did he combine great statesmanlike qualities with exceptional ability in the field.

His father was no doubt an expert, while Dean's ability was somewhere in between.

Brady surveyed the mess before him, admiring the ability of the bio-elimination field to destroy on touch.

The demon said I would lose my ability to heal my people, since I broke the First Warlord's decree.

Don't let your pride interfere with your ability to save your people, Rissa.

She didn't doubt Taran's ability to defend her kingdom - -if he ever got the chance.

These children were older in years, it is true, than the baby who lisps, "Papa kiss baby--pretty," and fills out her meaning by pointing to her new dress; but their ability to understand and use language was no greater.

As incredible as this psychic ability is, the whole world knows something or someone can do this.

That time passed with the suffering of his people and the ability of the Council to coerce all his allies but one to leave his side.

Initially fearing her to be brittle by her reaction to the world around her, A'Ran was more assured of her ability to withstand the changes in her life.

She'd lost the ability to feel anger-- or feel at all-- and just wondered what her friend wanted.

Dean questioned Janet's scholastic ability to himself and cynically wondered if today's class was Vacuuming For Beginners or Dusting 101.

Cynthia's ability to distinguish one motor vehicle from another was limited to trucks, vans, jeeps, limos and all others.

Though it would kill Dean to admit it, he was proud as punch at his stepfather's guts and ability.

And why do you think she had that ability?