The phrase "ability to fetch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's or something's capability to retrieve or obtain information or objects.
Example: "The software's ability to fetch data from multiple sources makes it highly efficient."
Alternatives: "capacity to retrieve" or "capability to obtain".
But after the luckless pooch is grabbed up by a loony scientist (Peter Dinklage) bent on "genetic manipulation," a lab accident leaves him with more than just the ability to fetch.
Arthur's talent as a primitive entertainer (a mewling that passes as song and a sporadic ability to fetch an inflated pig bladder) also attracts the attention of one of William's drinking companions, a French deserter with "thin rascally lips and pale blue, red-rimmed eyes that remind Ned of a jellyfish".
The API adds the ability to fetch realtime streams based on the Home, Room, and Friends List updates as they occur.
Wearable technology would give any official roaming an airport the ability to fetch details about a lost bag and travellers could save time by approaching the first representative they saw, regardless of airline affiliation.
Sure, it made a lot of headlines in the web 2.0 community, but frankly thinking back, what I should have focused on was collaborative blogging (with ability to fetch RSS from external blogs as well as a built-in blog engine), plus email list sync'd blogging.
Our ability to fetch back the proteins documented in MEROPS from PDB illustrates the applicability and the reliability of the method.
In this new era of tight credit, Wall Street, he said, should begin to reassess issuers' abilities to fetch given prices on asset sales.
It was the police academy that didn't recognize the brilliance of Sabrina, Kelly and Jill; he was the one who tapped into their resourcefulness and ability to look fetching morphing into race car drivers, cocktail waitresses or mannequins.
The project focuses on how women are often required to walk several miles a day to fetch water supplies, impacting their ability to work full-time.
He was the only one with the ability to plumb the furthest reaches of our coastal coves and rocky outcroppings to fetch the precious pearls we so desperately need to save our economy.
