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able

[ay-buhl] / ˈeɪ bəl /




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The law would require that all new vehicles sold in the U.S. be able to tune to the AM band.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

"It couldn't have happened without Liverpool and I can't wait for people to be able to step into our story and share the experience."

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Customers who are approved for futures trading will be able to access perps through their Webull Futures accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Kim cited down cycles for base metals in 2016 and following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as examples of market disruptions that Altius was able to take advantage of.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

A gang has to be able to "read" the social behavior of the foreman.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

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


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