"acquire ability" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea that someone is gaining or developing an ability or skillset. For example: "He is working hard to acquire the ability to manage employees successfully."
They report a rich clinical experience where they undergo limited supervised responsibility and acquire ability and confidence to undertake the role of the intern.
A developmental regulatory program involved in embryo implantation, referred to as the "epithelial-mesenchymal transition" (EMT) was adopted to explain how transformed epithelial cells could acquire ability to metastasize, i.e., to invade surrounding nonmalignant tissues and to disseminate, in a multistep process including entering and leaving the circulatory system.
We also need to have a more general understanding of whether this virus could acquire abilities of airborne transmission in other ways.
When varying sociocultural practices evolve in similar environments, participants can acquire abilities that flourish in different practices from one's own [67].
To surmount these limitations, the tumour needs to acquire abilities that allow it to adapt to a hypoxic microenvironment (Maxwell et al, 1999; Zhong et al, 1999).
Inquiry into how applicant acquired ability to read, write, or speak a foreign language.
The Phe278Ala and Glu282Ala mutants also acquired ability to synthesize TAGs by esterification of glycerol and fatty acids.
What 100X teams and talents have is either the innate or acquired ability to make their skill sets and sensibilities multiply in effectiveness rather than merely add up.
Despite the acquired ability to obtain highly pure and stable complexes with controlled stoichiometry, extensive crystallization screening of various OCP FRP complexes (>5000 conditions overall) failed so far.
The metabolic engineering of the microbial 1,3-PD production exploits both native producers and microorganisms with acquired ability to produce the diol via genetic manipulations.
125I-labeled brain alpha-chain that was hybridized with erythrocyte beta-subunit acquired ability to bind to ankyrin sites on erythrocyte membranes.
