How to Use capability in a Sentence
capability
noun- The device has the capability of recording two television channels at once.
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Kids and adults will be able to learn about their capabilities.
—Gabrielle Chenault, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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These aims, in turn, can be viewed through the lens of business capabilities.
—Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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The players, a lot of us didn’t play to our capabilities.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
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And wars of attrition go on as long as both sides have the capability and the will to fight.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
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All of that capability comes at a cost though, and not all of that cost is financial.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2022
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But with new capabilities come new risks.
—Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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This demands new capabilities and new roles to drive it.
—Cameron Partridge, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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In the old days, there might not have been parity in terms of capability.
—Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 8 July 2026
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Among those who have the capability to do their jobs from home, a hybrid plan wins out by a landslide.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 June 2023
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This is one instance where the e-book format, with its search capability, may be a good idea.
—Farran Smith Nehme, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
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This remodel changes the capabilities of the main room to fix that.
—Maryalice Parks, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
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But, no single food has detox capabilities, and your body doesn’t need it anyway.
—Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 18 May 2023
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But people have questioned his love of the game and his capability to lead a franchise.
—Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
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Unless, of course, the time is used wisely to explore the capabilities of a new pitch.
—Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar. 2026
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That could give users a false sense of trust in the bot’s intelligence or capabilities.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
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A lot of us didn’t play probably to our capabilities.
—Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
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The test will prove the weapon’s long-range capability and precision.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
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Meta is open-sourcing models that aren’t too far behind yours, in terms of capabilities.
—Billy Perrigo, TIME, 23 June 2024
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And there is no doubt that Russia has the capability, Holt said.
—Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2022
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The capability is there, and his shooting motion looks sound.
—Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
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China doesn’t have the capability to produce leading-edge chips on its own.
—Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2022
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And that means Amazon has the capability of learning about your home.
—Shep Hyken, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
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This capability will come to more wearable devices in the near future, too.
—ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026
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Anything above that has the capabilities to damage your hearing in a couple hours or less.
—Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 30 Mar. 2023
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Speed without capability is a race to the bottom.
—Christopher Lind, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
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That said, the rotors really show off their capability in light winds.
—New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025
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What stood out just as much as the capability was what Dacia chooses not to include.
—Fergus Scholes, TheWeek, 30 Jan. 2026
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But capability is moving faster than any eighteen-month plan can absorb.
—Farooque Munshi, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
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Their models still largely hold the lead in capabilities, as well as the hardware used to train and advance them.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
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