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- adjective
superlative form ofable : mostable .
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Examples
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Because the return on colocation among the ablest is so high, and because high-end incomes are rising so fast, it makes sense for these workers to continue to bid up real estate and accept other costs that traditional middle-class workers and families cannot afford.
Where the Brains Are 2006
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Because the return on colocation among the ablest is so high, and because high-end incomes are rising so fast, it makes sense for these workers to continue to bid up real estate and accept other costs that traditional middle-class workers and families cannot afford.
Where the Brains Are 2006
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Indeed, he soon became known as the ablest counsellor and advocate in
Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans James Baldwin 1883
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It's something to be known as the ablest honest lawyer in New York.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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'Of all those that I met in Russia, the ablest were the two brothers
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907
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When Mantua fell, and Austria saw herself driven from Italy, she had called her ablest general, the Archduke Charles, from the Rhine, and given him an army of over one hundred thousand men to lead against Bonaparte.
The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte Tarbell, Ida 1899
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The new crusade against the President was begun by Mr. Vallandigham, who if not the ablest was the frankest and boldest member of his party.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861
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XIV., has called the ablest men to his councils without caring what they were. "
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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One of our ablest diplomats, Ryan Crocker, then ambassador to Baghdad, now our envoy in Kabul, once pronounced the definitive judgment on these contested Iraqi matters: "In the end, what we leave behind and how we leave will be more important than how we came."
What Obama Left Behind in Iraq Fouad Ajami 2011
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People completely unsuited for word-play will improvise an endless string of puns and wholly improbable idea relationships fit to outdo the ablest masters of this preposterous craft...
Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought" Jason Silva 2011
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