innate ability
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"I was even nicknamed The Librarian by a few people because I have this innate ability to read people like a book," he explained.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
Yet, for all of her work building an empire, Paltrow still has the innate ability to disappear into a character.
From Salon • Dec. 22, 2025
Mr. Sowell emphasized this repeatedly: The same innate ability can produce different outcomes depending on the norms that surround it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Bronstein wanted to use Byrne’s innate ability to find comic moments in unlikely places in order to capture the mordantly humorous beats in the script.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025
The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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