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Demand for the Birkin is normally so strong that the brand’s sales assistants are able to make access to the bags conditional on buying other stuff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
My dad loved me as a child, and and he raised me strong enough to be able to do this thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Engineers said they were able to debunk some "myths", including that bullets can ricochet off the curve in the ballistic plate.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The president is expected to impose fresh import taxes this week, as levies from February are only able to remain in effect for 150 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
And now everything would be weird between us, and maybe we wouldn’t even be able to stay best friends anymore, which is exactly what I’d wanted to avoid.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Jimmy Carter was one of the abler residents, in his mid-seventies—too able for tracing letters.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
This leaves the real study of real economics, in the real world, wide open for abler minds.
From Forbes ● Apr. 17, 2015
He is widely considered abler, more vigorous and more cultivated than his elder brother.
From Time Magazine Archive
Physicist Berkner estimates that 75,000 high school students a year are abler than the median winners of last year's doctorates.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Getting Lemoncello to cancel these so-called Olympic Games? Couldn’t have done it in an abler manner myself.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Cox proved to be Young’s ablest intelligence gatherer, even if the occasional bribes she endorsed put her agents at needless risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s chief Supreme Court lawyer, is widely considered one of the ablest high-court advocates.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, he described Ms Sturgeon as being "one of the ablest communicators in politics".
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2023
In September 1948, a State Department report portrayed Ho as "the strongest and perhaps the ablest figure in Indochina," and said that "any suggested solution which excludes him is an expedient of uncertain outcome."
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2022
Antmoos held off; so did Eurymakhos, suitors in chief, by far the ablest there.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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