Word Finder - able

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Easy to use.

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Suitable; competent.

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Liable to.

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Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.

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Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.

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I’ll see you as soon as I’m able.

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Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.

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After the past week of forced marches, only half the men are fully able.

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Rich; well-to-do.

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He was born to an able family.

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Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.

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The chairman was also an able sailor.

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Legally qualified or competent.

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He is able to practice law in six states.

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Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.

His father was never able to get custody of him as a child.

When will you be able to take me to get my car?

It's good to be able to listen.

She wasn't going to be able to sleep any more.

If he had simply ignored her, she might have been able to get her emotions under control, but now a sob threatened so convincingly that she was afraid to breathe.

Looking out, they could see into some of the houses near them, where there were open windows in abundance, and were able to mark the forms of the wooden Gargoyles moving about in their dwellings.

In the future, all people will be able to follow their passions without regard for market forces.

Nothing she had ever experienced in her life was more painful than that moment, knowing his pain and not being able to say a thing to help.

If I can slip them, I may be able to help.

Would she ever be able to watch a normal family scene without feeling the agony of her loss?

I would need the robot to be able to proactively offer suggestions.

A few times she nodded off, but for the most part she was able to stay awake until Alex arrived the next morning with Katie.

Our friends had a good start and were able to maintain it, for with their eight wings they could go just as fast as could the Gargoyles.

They need to be able to irrigate without relying solely on rain.

The coachman explained as well as he was able; and they rode onward.

If the driver was hurt, she might be able to help.

And if so, would they be able to fit three people comfortably in the front seat?

Brandon still wasn't sure when he would be able to leave the ranch.

I'd call him, but of course he wouldn't be able to answer!

She's such a little fraidy cat but I shan't be able to keep her much longer.

She boiled it, and boiled it, As long as she was able; Then Mrs. Finney took it, And put it on the table.

He should be able to deliver.

We mutually agreed the subject of our tests was verboten until we were able to get together again in three weeks hence.

But the noise and clatter seemed as dreadful to them as Jim's heels, for all who were able swiftly turned and flew away to a great distance.

Being able to discuss such things with him was as comforting as it was new.

He had an idea of how his father felt, fearing he would have to watch his little boy grow and not being able to be the provider.

It must be fun to be able to ride all around freely while we're stuck in our wagons.

This was not the first time she wasn't able to assist.

She turned to go back to the house and realized she wouldn't be able to make it before the storm caught up with her.

I've never been able to.

I will be able to change their color.

There was some question that he might not be able to keep his own child?

Will you be able to come?

And the whole thing has been unnatural because that cat and I are both able to talk your language, and to understand the words you say.

A Cleveland mother had reported an infant child was taken from his crib while napping yet when Howie was able to enter the location before and during the alleged time, there was no sign of the child.

Perhaps I was being unfair but everything we'd been able to do was close to ending with a sad whimper, due to the greed of this woman.

I was able to take care of that issue, though.

Would she be able to use it?

I should make too good a target for the French, besides I am afraid I should hardly be able to climb onto a horse.

It was several more minutes before she was able to take deep breaths – even longer before she was able to utter more than a strangled sound.

The vehicle was different but this time he was able to record the South Carolina license plate number.

On the record, tell the public this; you've been led to believe the psychic tipster is a woman of an age able to collect social security.

Howie was able to view the abduction, though it was particularly brutal as the young boy was knocked unconscious and bleeding.

Would you be able to access national data bases?

The thought distracted her, and she both yearned to be with him and hated herself for not being able to shake the thought of him.

Horrified, she wasn't able to look away.

He hadn't been able to sleep in two days but fell fast into a deep, peaceful slumber.

No, I was able to get you in at the Thompson's.

But my guess is that we will be able to do this and even make existing "good" genes perform better.

Structural famine exists when enough food is technically on hand or able to be imported, but some portion of the population is economically separated from it.