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able

[ey-buhl] / ˈeɪ bəl /




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He said he feared the leading lab and its competitors were racing to build systems that humans won’t be able to control.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Norris was able to recover only to third around the new Madring track in Madrid where overtaking is next to impossible.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

By comparing the modern climate with several centuries of past conditions, they were also able to judge how unusual the current weakening of Indian and Pacific Ocean coupling really is.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

“I don’t think Spencer Pratt was the candidate L.A. needed in this moment, but I understand why he was able to cultivate support,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

By now I was desperate for food but less able to walk than ever.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Rothbard blamed Smith’s celebrity for blotting out the better work of abler minds, but Turgot had kept his genius mainly to himself.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Jimmy Carter was one of the abler residents, in his mid-seventies—too able for tracing letters.

From The New Yorker Oct. 1, 2018

This leaves the real study of real economics, in the real world, wide open for abler minds.

From Forbes Apr. 17, 2015

With the pace of a jack rabbit it bounds from song to dance to comedy to song, offers too short glimpses of some of Hollywood's abler and less familiar talent.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Getting Lemoncello to cancel these so-called Olympic Games? Couldn’t have done it in an abler manner myself.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

Cox proved to be Young’s ablest intelligence gatherer, even if the occasional bribes she endorsed put her agents at needless risk.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s chief Supreme Court lawyer, is widely considered one of the ablest high-court advocates.

From Seattle Times Feb. 6, 2024

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, he described Ms Sturgeon as being "one of the ablest communicators in politics".

From BBC Feb. 7, 2023

In September 1948, a State Department report portrayed Ho as "the strongest and perhaps the ablest figure in Indochina," and said that "any suggested solution which excludes him is an expedient of uncertain outcome."

From Salon Nov. 5, 2022

One of these young men was Cyril Ramaphosa, the general secretary of the National Union of Mine Workers and one of the ablest of the new generation of leadership.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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