Collocations withability
These are words often used in combination withability.
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academic ability
The influence of both infant attachment security and 4-year attachment security on child competence and academic ability was examined first.
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acting ability
He was fascinated by the stage, learning everything from set construction to stage production, and embarrassed by his acting ability.
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amazing ability
Given the amazing ability of bacteria to acquire resistance from other bacteria, it appears that from society's standpoint the development of antibiotic resistance is inexorable.
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analytical ability
From a mass spectrometry perspective, the generation of molecular or structurally characteristic ions is a key feature in the technique's analytical ability.
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artistic ability
Every epoch appropriated these primary motifs and adapted them to its own technological and artistic ability.
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athletic ability
Consistent winners may sometimes have less athletic ability than losers.
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average ability
No notable differences were found among children with strengths in crystallized ability and short-term memory, processing speed, and average ability with no secondary strengths.
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cognitive ability
One could use such a variable as a proxy for cognitive ability.
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decision-making ability
Robots can indeed be programmed so that repeated interactions improve their decision-making ability, and one might even argue that statistically-based similarity coding might constitute a representation.
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driving ability
Score on the driver confidence scale was also associated with score on the index of self-perceived driving ability.
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enhanced ability
Almost half the children responded in "spectacular fashion" presenting with unusual motivation to work, and an enhanced ability to read, comprehend, and do arithmetic.
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exceptional ability
For added contrast, we compared a group of hospital in-patients with a group of subjects of exceptional ability.
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extraordinary ability
His extraordinary ability and strength of character were indicated in abundance from the early years of his youth, together with rare scholarship and keen intellect.
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functional ability
The proportion of women needing help with cooking had not appreciably changed, suggesting that this question measured knowledge rather than functional ability.
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healing ability
He's assisted in this by a nearly miraculous physical healing ability for which he himself has no explanation.
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impaired ability
In general, newborns and infants have a diminished ability to excrete ions as well as an impaired ability to reabsorb them.
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improved ability
Its notable qualities include strong incentives to invest, and improved ability to use land as collateral.
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increased ability
This model could be tested by exploiting mutants with reduced or increased ability to synthesize raffinose.
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incredible ability
However, as we all know, the financial sector has an incredible ability to pass any costs on to citizens and companies.
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inherent ability
The genotype indicates the plant's genetic constitution and determines its inherent ability to grow and produce latex within the environment provided.
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innate ability
At the same time, there were many people who showed an innate ability to face life challenges.
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intellectual ability
This was followed by perceived intellectual ability, which explained 12.96%.
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leadership ability
Although without strong social skills, he demonstrated impressive leadership ability and considerable political astuteness.
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leaping ability
While they have extraordinary leaping ability, they spring upward onto tree branches only when they are fearful or suddenly attacked.
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limited ability
Furthermore, the uniqueness of many projects also means that there is often a limited ability to benchmark practice against other similar projects.
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linguistic ability
One factor that influences the decision is their assessment of the interlocutor's linguistic ability.
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magical ability
Those pyramids have an almost magical ability to reform.
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mathematical ability
Indeed, it is difficult to imagine a more splendid introduction for biologists and others with some mathematical ability to those statistical topics which are covered here.
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mental ability
Memory, then, is not simply the mental ability to retrieve past events but a practice in dialogue with our surroundings.
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motor ability
We made four predictions about the possible roles of group differences, perceptual- motor ability, task difficulty, and chronological age in nonlinguistic performance.
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musical ability
Their level of talk does not appear to relate to their overall musical ability, but may derive to some extent from their aptitude for composing.
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narrative ability
In order to understand growth patterns, it is essential to examine children's narrative ability longitudinally.
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natural ability
Viral-based vector gene therapy takes advantage of the natural ability of viruses to infect cells and have their genes expressed by the host cells.
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nonverbal ability
This pattern of results was upheld when we accounted for the effects of age, verbal ability, and nonverbal ability.
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organizational ability
He had creative organizational ability and was willing to perform unwelcome and difficult tasks.
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outstanding ability
Local education authorities can already award incentive allowances to teachers who have demonstrated outstanding ability in the classroom.
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passing ability
Primarily as a central midfielder, he has good vision and passing ability.
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perceived ability
A further aim of the study was to investigate the possible mediating role of personality on the relationship between confidence and perceived ability.
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perceptual ability
I suggest that it is more likely indicative of the evolutionary development of the perceptual ability to detect resources for behavior of hand-held objects.
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physical ability
Furthermore, the improved physical ability carried over to independent living at home.
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predictive ability
The litmus test for any formal theory lies in its predictive ability.
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problem-solving ability
No such improvements were found in visual short-term memory, problem-solving ability, cognitive speed, arithmetic, or verbal comprehension.
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proven ability
This shows that enrolment without formal title is possible, as long as landholders have locally recognized tenure and a proven ability to exclude potential intruders.
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psychic ability
But the use of the signed index attributes the model with the psychic ability to know which phoneme represents the correct response on a given trial.
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reading ability
The results described above provide information regarding the multivariate nature of children's reading ability patterns and their influence on various reading outcome measures.
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reasoning ability
An individual's information is a property of a particular equilibrium, but her reasoning ability is not.
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reduced ability
A reduced ability to develop a memory-assisted perceptual organization is therefore related to the disorganization component of symptomatology.
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remarkable ability
In other words, humans have a remarkable ability to look on a horror and see a silver lining.
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reproductive ability
The subsequent fate of the female centrosome is unclear, but it appears to lose both microtubule nucleating activity and reproductive ability.
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singing ability
The station decided one day to open their microphones to newcomers to show off their singing ability.
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spatial ability
Consequently, scale construction initially followed a face validity approach to form indices of verbal and spatial ability.
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storytelling ability
This measure is not meant to reflect grammatical competence but rather storytelling ability, and is thought to be consistent across languages.
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superior ability
Wealthier economies have a superior ability to finance investments internally and, as a consequence, international markets favor these "richer" countries.
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supernatural ability
Now she has the supernatural ability to create blizzards.
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technical ability
Advantages in the technical ability to perform fetal surgery, understanding of fetal and placental physiology and the accuracy of fetal echocardiography have all progressed enormously.
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telepathic ability
They are identified by a metal collar worn around the neck, used to focus their telepathic ability.
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tremendous ability
This will be a task requiring tremendous ability and—some people may not like the term—ruthlessness.
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uncanny ability
He strikes a chord with modern readers, who often marvel at his uncanny ability to speak directly to them.
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unique ability
The performance was full of such instances of the actors' unique ability to employ different modes of physicality in order to convey their story.
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varying ability
The parents who take an interest in this data will recognise that schools take pupils from various catchment areas and of varying ability.
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verbal ability
In fact, we replicated several specific findings by other investigators in this area, including verbal ability differences in the two groups during middle childhood.
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vocal ability
The self-perception of vocal ability is usually governed by childhood experience, and it is therefore crucial that teachers do not replicate any sense of failure in their own pupils.
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