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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ability to express that" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's capacity to communicate a specific idea or feeling effectively.
Example: "Her ability to express that complex emotion in her writing is truly remarkable."
Alternatives: "capacity to convey that" or "skill to articulate that".
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Johnson's tone remains joyful, yet her ability to express that joy has been dramatically fractured.
His ability to express that connection with his readers bodes well for his new magazine.
Her growing love for Anne, and her growing ability to express that love – not Anne's duckling-to-swan act – is the real magic transformation.
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As my friend John, a 39-year-old political columnist, said, "There's this notion that they have an ability to express feelings that connect to something deeper that you yourself don't have".
It has been suggested that cancer cells preferentially metastasize to bone due to their ability to express genes that are normally considered bone or bone-related [ 36].
Smith describes his strategy: "It's about regaining that sense of abandon, that sort of distinctively American expressiveness, that ability to express oneself unabashedly here in America that gives us potentially a point of differentiation against the indigenous makes in Germany of Japan".
To the Editor: There is a delicate balance between the psychological safety of students and a student's ability to express an opinion that may be unpopular or unfriendly.
In general, this fraction is characterized by its neurosphere-forming ability, its strikingly increased drug resistance, and finally, by its ability to express surface markers that are oftenly used for their FACS-based isolation [ 5, 6].
Anton spoke like someone whose grievances were so far in excess of his ability to express them that he might have been the bearer of an ancient, tribal burden.
Furthermore, both symbionts have the ability to express antagonism that facilitates the maintenance of single symbionts within individual colonies.
Volkov, a prominent adherent of the latter view, marvels at this timid man's ability to express suffering in music that was nonetheless outwardly optimistic, and suggests that Shostakovich found an important model in Pushkin, who survived the cruelties of Tsar Nicholas I by juggling three classically Russian roles — "pretender," "chronicler," and "holy fool".
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