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The phrase "retains the ability" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a person, animal, or thing maintaining or keeping a certain ability or skill. For example, "The cat retains the ability to find its way home even after being far away for days."
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Government retains the ability to tax and spend, as democracy requires.
And I can tell you that she retains the ability to imagine.
In some less-primitive groups the pupa retains the ability to move some appendages.
Iraq still retains the ability to fire and guide mobile surface-to-air missiles, according to Air Force officials.
Give Donald Trump credit for one thing: he retains the ability to surprise people, especially his fellow-Republicans.
In this case, one news outlet still retains the ability to move the opinions and behaviors of the American public.
Our extension of Tent Pitcher retains the ability to perform adaptive refinement and coarsening of the mesh.
Importantly, this method retains the ability to sequence reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR) products, validating microRNA-specific amplification.
A stem cell is a cell that retains the ability to divide and proliferate throughout life to provide progenitor cells that can differentiate into specialized cells.
It retains the ability to influence foreign and security policy developments in Europe and, to a lesser extent, around the globe.
For now, Mr. Obama retains the ability to argue, after a generation in which conservative economic policies were generally ascendant, that the difficulties today result from past mistakes.
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