unique ability

collocation in English

meaningsofuniqueandability

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unique
adjective
uk
/juːˈniːk/us
/juːˈniːk/
being the only existing one of its type or, more generally, unusual, or special in ...
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ability
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the physical or mental power or skill needed to ...
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(Definition ofuniqueandabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The performance was full of such instances of the actors'uniqueabilityto employ different modes of physicality in order to convey their story.
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The related concept of inclusivity here refers to theuniqueabilityof the arts to validate and encompass the individual's personal response or experience.
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The banks have theuniqueabilityto costlessly smith gold into a single gold consumption good.
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Lentiviral vectors have auniqueabilityto transduce non - dividing or quiescent cells, integrate stably into the host chromosome and allow long term gene expression.
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Humans have auniqueabilityto learn more than one language - a skill thought to be mediated by functional (rather than structural) plastic changes in the brain.
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Qualitative methods, with theiruniqueabilityto capture the effects of social context on human development, have been little used to date in the emerging field of developmental psychopathology.
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These constraints have theuniqueabilityto be defined on a set of variables that is not known beforehand and to be able to generate new components to ensure consistency.
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Fuzzy rule based systems have been an active research field for theiruniqueabilityto build models based on experimental data.
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It has auniqueabilityto be a local defence force.
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Sadly, in my opinion, it maintains the paper'suniqueabilityto mislead and give incorrect information on the prison service.
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No one else had thatuniqueabilityto escape the investigation of improper or perhaps illegal behaviour.
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I should like to know how many people without ouruniqueabilityto bend the law have been unable to obtain this increase.
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Fourthly, broadcasting has theuniqueabilityto allow many people to share information and to tackle social exclusion.
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It is not every man who has theuniqueabilityto look at questions from different angles and different points of view.
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The statutory council would thus have theuniqueabilityto unite the profession and sweep aside the current fragmentation.
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We would get them to do more for us than other pilots flying helicopters in the services because of theiruniqueability.
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Therefore, theuniqueabilitywe have enables us to go to any crisis spot and be a doctor or a referee.
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Nevertheless, few would deny that it has auniqueabilityto express and give voice to the concerns of those we represent.
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Like the virus, it has auniqueabilityto keep changing its shape and form.
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I believe that my noble friend'suniqueabilityin the field of foreign affairs was to get on with both sides while understanding the position of the minorities.
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