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For George, his children must be able to be self-sufficient, endlessly encouraging them to watch him fix things around the house.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Skinner's time at United has been full of ups and downs and he was never able to win over a passionate fanbase.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

“It does feel like a fight between people whose housing is settled for decades, versus people who are worried that they may never be able to own a home,” said Posch, who supports the project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

“I felt better today, able to put some weight on it,” Rojas said, adding that his X-rays were negative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Therefore, say the Whole Brainers, the whole brain must be able to perform any function of one part.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

Hubert Humphrey or Dwight Eisenhower or Lyndon Johnson would never have been able to compact his message into two minutes -- each was a rambler -- but they were abler politicians than this lot.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Some of the ablest of New York’s black hustlers took a liking to me, and knowing that I still was green by their terms, soon began in a paternal way to “straighten Red out.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey