remarkable ability

collocation in English

meaningsofremarkableandability

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remarkable
adjective
uk
/rɪˈmɑː.kə.bəl/us
/rɪˈmɑːr.kə.bəl/
unusual or special and therefore surprising and ...
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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 ofremarkableandabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In other words, humans have aremarkableabilityto look on a horror and see a silver lining.
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Despite successive governments'remarkableabilityto enact and implement sweeping changes, the promised payoff in improved economic welfare was slow to materialize.
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The old single parties have demonstrated aremarkableabilityto adapt to the new environment.
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In several reports, purified junctional structures show aremarkableabilityto spontaneously form end-to-end structures.
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The human nervous system has aremarkableabilityto learn to integrate novel complex sounds into words.
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He has aremarkableabilityto put economics in a broader perspective than we are accustomed to seeing, a perspective informed by psychology.
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Yet what they shared was aremarkableabilityto rise in the weakly institutionalised society of the late imperial intelligentsia, gaining as well the adoration of many of their contemporaries.
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A person who possessed thisremarkableabilitywould be able to intuit the relative distances between pairs of points without relying on a physical process of measurement.
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In particular, as questions about the underpinnings of infants'remarkableabilityto acquire language have become increasingly complex, appeals to universally available "guides" in this process have become increasingly common.
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How is thisremarkableabilityachieved?
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Children with normally developing language skills have aremarkableabilityto acquire new vocabulary items.
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He also has aremarkableabilityfor losing track of the substance discussion.
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The ballot papers showed aremarkableabilityon the part of the voters to mark their preferences properly.
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In many ways the world owes him a debt for theremarkableabilitywhich he has shown and for his tireless efforts during recent weeks.
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We have aremarkableabilityto lock qualified manpower up in limited environments for life.
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He had thatremarkableabilityto pick out the things that were wrong and put them right very quickly indeed.
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That task—and we must not forget it—dealing with some 11,000,000 persons, was carried out withremarkableabilityand considerateness.
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Our economy has shown aremarkableabilityto adapt to changing circumstances in the past few years.
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He has been extremely lucky, but he has also shown the mostremarkableabilityto change the entire basis of his approach to policy.
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He was in that position for over 15 years and was served by some men ofremarkableabilityand very great humanity.
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