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The phrase "ability to pick up" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to learn or acquire new skills or knowledge quickly.
Example: "Her ability to pick up new languages is impressive; she can speak three fluently within a year."
Alternatives: "capacity to learn" or "skill in acquiring".
Idiom
To pick up the tab.
To pay a bill.
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"His ability to pick up information was encouraging as well".
But their ability to pick up explosive traces on people is far more limited.
He has the gift of "shining," the ability to pick up vibrations others are luckily denied.
"I don't think the private hospitals have the ability to pick up this population," she said.
The company brags about the Roomba's ability to pick up pet hair.
But the hedge funds' ability to pick up on the fraud played an important role in shaming the main players.
Dogs' ability to pick up on human cues, as shown by Dr. Hare's study, is an example.
But another reason is her ability to pick up her guitar and sing pretty much any song you like.
He showed an ability to pick up the flight of the ball much quicker than any of our defenders".
Her biggest asset was her ear; her ability to pick up on the absurd and run with it.
She once credited her itinerant upbringing for an ability to pick up accents: Shirley Bassey's distinctive Tiger Bay, for instance.
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