The phrase "ability to wield a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skill or capability to use or control something effectively, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "Her ability to wield a powerful argument in debates has earned her great respect among her peers."
Alternatives: "capacity to handle a" or "skill to manage a".
Ideas were as important as the ability to wield a stethoscope.
Indeed, its ability to wield a negative effect over the career of the winner seemed to have grown even more potent with the passing of time.
Too often, councillors are selected more because of their ability to wield a block vote than their ability to represent the area.
I may not know a horcrux from a patronus, but even I could tell that some key plot points – deaths, a resurrection, the ability to wield a particularly potent wand – zipped by without being given due prominence.
We had been given a leg-up: a healthy amount of in-game currency to buy mods – abilities you acquire as you progress through the game, such as the know-how to make sticky bombs, the ability to wield a torch and so on.
Charlie's Angels was so popular that at one stage 59% of America's TV audience was said to tune in – a feat for a show featuring three female private detectives whose main talent was the ability to wield a gun while shouting, "Freeze, turkey!" Fawcett appeared well aware of what made the show a more or less instant hit from its launch in 1976.
What's most satisfying about the novel, though, is Gerard's ability to wield such a familiar range of personal terror in a vibrant, addictive display of prose.
We may seem quiet, but us writers like to brag a little about our ability to wield words like a weapon.
He has written twenty books; his next, due to be published in the coming months, is titled "Trump: The Collapse or Rise of the United States?" Panarin insisted that Russia had nothing to do with the hacks; moreover, he said, Russia was far behind the U.S. in its ability to wield information as a weapon.
Beijing would be loath to give up its ability to wield government purchasing as a policy tool to promote strategic sectors, like technology or energy.
When I imagine a voice actor, I'm thinking "super power"—the ability to wield character range and impressions on a level that I still don't understand.
