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The phrase "ability and capacity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skills or potential to perform tasks or functions.
Example: "The job requires a candidate with both the ability and capacity to manage multiple projects simultaneously."
Alternatives: "skills and potential" or "capability and competence".
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We have the ability and capacity to end extreme poverty by 2030.
It and the federal nuclear regulator agree ANSTO has the ability and capacity to securely manage all radioactive waste on site, including material due for return from overseas.
But I don't see any reason at the moment to doubt the pair of them, or their ability and capacity to challenge and show us they're the best people for the job.
The unbeaten run was still alive but Real were not satisfied with the draw – least of all Ramos, who again demonstrated his astonishing heading ability and capacity to save his team's skin.
Schaeffer's résumé included work with swimmers, boxers, weight lifters, mixed martial artists and N.F.L. players, but never before had he encountered someone with Ohno's intensity, recovery ability and capacity to endure pain.
Even so extraordinarily successful a person as Elizabeth Alexander, the tenured Yale professor and inaugural poet, claims to be haunted by "a continual underestimation of my intellectual ability and capacity, and the real insidious aspect of that kind of racism is that we don't know half the time when people are underestimating us".
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We have here, then, a point at which Austin expresses his view that ordinary attributions of ability, power, and capacity are incompatible with the thesis of determinism.
Those unique political abilities and capacity to negotiate with the powers that be led him to be known as "The Protector of the Indians".
Despite our tool use, language abilities and capacity for abstract thought, we are bowed down in the true natural order of the world here, no better than human sliders, two-legged canapés, for the dominant beasts.
We must enhance our abilities and capacity across the whole spectrum of disaster medical response.
In the German studies elderly and very old patients were not allowed to participate due to reasons of remembrance abilities and capacity.
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determination and capacity
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difficulty and capacity
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