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able

[ey-buhl] / ˈeɪ bəl /




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The damage from Wendy’s infection meant she would never have been able to hunt or scavenge again and would instead require a soft food diet for the rest of her life.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

An Anthropic researcher who specializes in training new AI models quit over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems they won’t be able to control.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Those patients are more likely to be able to pay not only for the initial test, but also for the specialists, repeat imaging, and biopsies that may follow.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

In the wake of victory, the RFU was able to take its time and tie him down to another four years.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

And now everything would be weird between us, and maybe we wouldn’t even be able to stay best friends anymore, which is exactly what I’d wanted to avoid.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

Four years later disease laid Franklin Roosevelt low and made him into a different and abler man.

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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