How to Use incapacity in a Sentence

incapacity

noun

• I'm aware of my weaknesses and incapacities.
• Among the biggest problems in the Muslim world, in the Arab world, is the incapacity to face the problem.
  — James McAuley, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2018
• For the first time, an incapacity had the weight of riches.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
• But what if the incapacity had not, in fact, been overcome?
  — Jon Meacham, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
• Google’s incapacity to shut down leaks has been on full display in recent days.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 14 Nov. 2022
• Society tells those who’ve been dealt a bad hand, who’ve never caught a break, that their failure must come from a lack of grit, an incapacity to dream big.
  — Scott Galloway, Time, 27 Sep. 2022
• Who wants to talk about their own death, incapacity, even retirement?
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2022
• What Douthat is acknowledging isn’t the kind of sudden onset mental incapacity or illness the drafters of the 25th Amendment feared.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 17 May 2017
• Evergrande has very similar problems with the slowing of the housing market and its incapacity to make the payments on its bonds.
  — Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• The incapacity of the political system to ponder the problem of his power, let alone check it, guarantees his Long Now.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• As a result, many of her cases hinge on showing incapacity.
  — Nick Leiber, ajc, 5 May 2018
• No always means no, incapacity means no by default, and there are no exceptions.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
• Fascism is the outcome of a collective incapacity to think.
  — Federico Finchelstein, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2020
• Guardianship, which is often used when a person is designated by the parents to take care of their child in the event of death or incapacity, is not an ideal match for this case, according to Parker.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
• Congress members from three parties signed a motion Friday to remove the center-right president on the grounds of moral incapacity.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2017
• The type and severity of your incapacity must be considered.
  — Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2022
• The lawyers then argued that Mr. Roof’s rejection of his only route to survival was itself evidence of his incapacity.
  — Kevin Sack, New York Times, 31 May 2017
• Once upon a time, Alito’s claims of systemic danger and state incapacity would have been dismissed as the rantings of a mountain survivalist.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022
• By rights, the pilot should have ended with Logan’s death or permanent incapacity.
  — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
• An estate planning attorney guides in choosing the best options for maintaining your estate after death or in the event of incapacity.
  — Kara Stevens, Essence, 29 Jan. 2020
• In the case of monarchical incapacity, deposition was seldom resorted to because a general belief in the divine right of kings got in the way.
  — chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2017
• So reliance on your will from a prior state of residence should only be done if there is absolutely no way to execute a new will in the new state, due to incapacity or emergency.
  — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2021
• Butcher, who saw Spears at her most erratic, noted that an argument for her incapacity would be easy to make about anyone in Spears’s circumstances.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
• The trials of the men who tried to kill the queen, most of whom pleaded insanity, also helped to strengthen the legal standards by which pleas of incapacity are prosecuted, writes Bruce Steele for the University Times.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
• The trials of the men who tried to kill the queen, most of whom pleaded insanity, also helped to strengthen the legal standards by which pleas of incapacity are prosecuted, writes Bruce Steele for the University Times.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
• On Twitter, the president’s critics have again called for invocation of the 25th Amendment, which provides for the removal of a president for incapacity.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• What happens when the public sector ceases to play its leading role, whether because of incapacity or confusion?
  — Norman Anderson, Forbes, 6 July 2021
• Estate planning involves making a plan for the transfer of your property upon your death or incapacity.
  — Kara Stevens, Essence, 29 Jan. 2020
• Mr. Roof’s choice to represent himself in the penalty phase of his trial, and to reject a defense based on mental incapacity, has raised questions about his desire to avoid execution.
  — Kevin Sack and Alan Blinder, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• In more routine ways, the political system feeds frustration and discontent with its incapacity to respond to the public’s needs.
  — Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024