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Discover LudwigThe phrase "able to be so" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capability or possibility of something being in a certain state or condition.
Example: "The project is complex, but it is able to be so if we allocate enough resources and time."
Alternatives: "capable of being so" or "possible to be so".
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(I wouldn't be able to be so disciplined at curbing my imagination).
I feel like it's a completely different ball game, being able to be so … I don't know, larger than life.
But LGBT activist and journalist Elena Kostyuchenko said not all homosexual women are able to be so open.
Games like the one against Towson are part of the reason why LSU is able to be so profitable.
He was able to be so defiant because there was much that was puzzling about Houellebecq's complaint.
It is a measure of Madiba's statesmanlike abilities that he was able to be so extraordinarily effective in delicate interventions well outside the African sphere.
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It seems they must be able to see colors to be so colorful themselves.
It stops you being able to be quite so spur-of-the-moment".
Albert Einstein once said that scientific theories should be able to be described so simply that a child could understand them.
Understand that night sweat maybe be able to be controlled so that you possibly sleep cooler.
If you don't have a place to run … Well, to be able to disappear is so important.
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