Ability and Doctrine

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Ability noun - The physical or mental power to do something.

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Doctrine and ability are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Doctrine" instead a noun "Ability".

Nearby Word: able

Doctrine noun - A statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church.

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Ability and doctrine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ability" instead a noun "Doctrine".

Nearby Words: doctrinal, doctrinarian

better	better ability	better doctrine
similar	similar ability	similar doctrine
certain	certain ability	certain doctrine
standard	standard ability	standard doctrine
Other adjectives: original, actual, extreme, superior, main, new, unique, mental, general, different, fighting, defensive, tactical.

This doctrine of assured destruction is dependent on the certainty in the mind of an aggressor that we have the will and ability to retaliate.

Source: Film / First Strike
Communism, a theory of economics in many ways diametrically opposed to libertarianism, is based on one simple doctrine: "From each according to ability, to each according to need".

Source: Analysis / Virtue/Vice Codification
Yet what ultimately shot down this doctrine was the development of beyond-visual-range missiles that gave fighters the ability to safely shoot down bombers from beyond the guns' maximum firing range.

Source: Awesome But Impractical / Military

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