The phrase "refine your ability" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express that someone should work to improve a skill or quality. For example, "I am working hard to refine my ability to write effectively in English".
Are you refining your "ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting"?
This includes the ability to refine your search in a hunt-and-peck way by selecting multiple sub-categories at once (for instance, you can look for apartments in both Williamsburg and Tribeca, or for Toyotas and BMWs, all in one search).
When your suspicious friend/family member/lover asks if you've been bitten, despite frothing at the mouth, your well refined ability to hide your symptoms means you'll say: "Of course not," semi-believably… Then you can just eat them.
The kids were always a foot taller, a bit more physical than he was, but he really learned to refine his ability that way and it was remarkable to watch.
Even as we refine our ability to prognosticate, it will never allow us to give a patient the unwelcome news that "you have six months to live" with anything that approaches certainty.
Although this experiment is not directly related, he said, it helps refine the ability to read and translate brain signals, an important part of all prosthetic devices connected to the brain, and an area in which brain science is making great advances.
By mimicking these biological entities, we will learn how to more efficiently interact with the human body and refine our ability to negotiate with the biological barriers that impair the therapeutic efficacy of nanoparticles.
Moreover, neural indices of working memory demand (e.g., Barber, Caffo, Pekar, & Mostofsky, 2013) can further refine our ability to detect cognitive overload as it is occurring during a specific task or instructional lesson, allowing for a careful analysis of the contribution of this individual difference factor to successful learning.
He continued to develop and refine the ability as he grew older.
