capacity
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Cerimedo had no official capacity in Paz’s government, but he enjoyed insider status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
“You’re losing the capacity to know what’s going on with pregnant women,” Lee Warner, the former chief of the Women’s Health and Fertility Branch at the CDC, said of the cuts at the division.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
"Bats have evolved this incredible fitness capacity, this incredible ability to deal with disease and this incredible ability to be able to prevent cancer," he said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Cayabyab told AFP on Friday evening that the first transfer had been capped at 30 bodies due to the capacity of the patrol vessel transporting them and that additional cadavers remained on the ferry.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
The moral law applies to rational, language-using creatures, and the law of nature binds all human beings by virtue of their capacity to recognize that there are moral obligations that are common to them all.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"It really upends a theory that says that symbolic rule induction is not possible without linguistic capacities," says Kean.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
He also said that the maximum capacities of passenger boats should be clearly indicated to avoid overloading, which is often one of the causes when boats capsize.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
He also launched a series of reforms on procurement and air defence capacities but struggled to overcome Ukraine's everlasting mobilisation problems.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
The moratorium applies to new facilities with capacities of at least 50 megawatts and halts projects still awaiting a permit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
But since 1572 the world has been caught up in a vast Scientific Revolution that has transformed the nature of knowledge and the capacities of humankind.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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