ability
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“While your right to express your political opinions is protected speech, speech that harasses City employees and disrupts their ability to perform their duties is not protected,” the letter read.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
The company’s ability to operate space-based data centers and ramp up rocket launches depends on perfecting critical technology.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Europe suffers from higher electricity prices than the U.S. and China, which will hamper its ability to attract data centers, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
His ability helped earn him that, of course, but it was an off-field moment that Gordon Strachan noticed when spying on the Under-21s that told the head coach he was right for his squad.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
We all envied her ability to find food on the move, snuffling up dead leaves, tugging at what little grass there was.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Vocabulary lists containing ability
"Kids Are Inventors, Too"
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Workshop 1, Part 1
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 9
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