ability
Example Sentences
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The Steelers offered what the Jets couldn’t: tradition, stability, a long-term coach, and the ability to get through a Sunday afternoon without the rest of the country pointing at the television and laughing.
With bots sounding more human by the day and the ability to create highly realistic photos and videos of just about whatever one pleases, the very concept of a shared reality may be in rapid decline.
From Slate
For young people raised on smartphones, this has meant that most of them seem to lack the attentional ability to actually read news articles in their entirety.
From Slate
A new review published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences challenges that idea by examining thermoception, the ability to sense changes in skin temperature such as a warm hug or a sudden chill.
From Science Daily
"Feeling warm touch on the skin enhances our ability to sense ourselves from the inside and recognize our own existence. We feel, 'this is my body, and I am grounded in it.'"
From Science Daily
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