The phrase "ability applied" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the practical use or implementation of a particular skill or capability in a specific context.
Example: "Her ability applied in real-world scenarios has greatly enhanced the team's performance."
Alternatives: "skill in action" or "capability utilized".
He won his soldiers' devotion by the victories that his intellectual ability, applied to warfare, brought them.
This ability, applied to radiation damage and nuclear technology, has startling implications both for civilian and military uses.
And whereas her last few albums have mainly focused on her interpretive ability — applied to jazz standards, blues and spirituals, and the odd refurbished pop tune — this one showcases her songwriting.
In volunteer settings?" Because of their era, a small percentage of these women of extraordinary intellectual ability applied their talents to careers.
As it turns out, there is another social category for whom stereotypes of math ability applies: gender.
Due to such thermal inhibitive ability, applying rock dust (or rock dusting) to prevent or mitigate mine explosions is wildly used in US coal mines nowadays.
A more sensitive method to assess additive predictive ability applies likelihood ratio testing between models with and without additional risk factors.
Scientists might seem unlikely candidates for this course -- but, in fact, performance and design abilities apply whenever you are putting innovative discoveries, scientific or otherwise, into action.
Notably, humans in all cultures are skilled at recognizing and understanding relatedness in other contexts, and many of these abilities apply equally well to phylogenies.
That's Velázquez, who uniquely combined, in Bailey's words, "the ability to feel, the ability to think, and the ability to apply paint".
But without the ability to apply hard power, Russia's version of soft power would achieve little.
