How to Use the disabled in a Sentence
the disabled
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The redesign is also more conscious of the needs of the disabled.
— Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024 -
The cost of home caregiving for seniors and the disabled has gone up 40% in the last 10 years.
— Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023 -
The owner of the account is the disabled child and income earned by the account is not taxable.
— Winnie Sun, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 -
The weather was rough, and strong winds pushed the two schooners perilously close to the disabled steamer.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2023 -
But because the brakes on the disabled train’s first five cars were out of service, the trip arm system was not able to stop the train, the NTSB said.
— Bill Sanderson, New York Daily News, 25 Jan. 2024 -
To avoid colliding with the disabled steamer, the Ironton cut the tow line.
— Erin Berge, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023 -
And the law provides for free vaccines for seniors and the disabled starting in 2024.
— Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024 -
Another tow truck was dispatched to pull the disabled one out of the driveway.
— Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023 -
Funding was rejected for programs that feed the poor and care for the disabled.
— Fred Grimm, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024 -
For too long, stories of the disabled community have been told for us and not by us.
— Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023 -
Woo, who opened the season on the disabled list, also is playing for just over the minimum.
— Jack Magruder, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024 -
The victim, a man in his 60s who uses a walker, took pictures of the license plate of a pickup truck that was parked in the disabled spot.
— Andrew Blankstein, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2024 -
Then show them the disabled parking placard from your doctor.
— Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 4 June 2023 -
After the initial crash, the disabled Honda stopped in lanes of traffic, Castro said.
— Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023 -
Riders were told to expect a 30 – 90 minute delay Tuesday as crews worked to remove the disabled train.
— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024 -
But the film also delves into the controversy that arose in the disabled community around Reeve’s push for a cure, to get out of the chair.
— Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024 -
Officers safely brought children from the disabled vessel aboard the MEP patrol boat and towed the sailboat back to port.
— Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023 -
What the public health emergency's end means for the disabled Thursday’s shift follows the end of the national emergency for the virus in April.
— USA TODAY, 11 May 2023 -
Kershaw went on the disabled list twice because of lower-back injuries last season.
— Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023 -
In the brief clip, a rescuer can be seen getting lowered into the water before swimming over to the disabled sailboat, where the man and dog were waiting.
— Abigail Adams, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024 -
Mothers, children, and the disabled clutch passels of documents along the sidewalk.
— Abraham Nussbaum and Renee Y. Hsia, STAT, 2 Nov. 2023 -
Many of the most vulnerable people, such as the elderly and the disabled, cannot move easily.
— Douglas Gollin, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016 -
The refugees, the suicides, the disabled, the unsheltered, the traumatized, the ones who have departed this reality.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023 -
Nor are these bonds limited to those in the disabled community.
— John Hall, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023 -
The 35-year-old Paxton, who finished last season on the disabled list and pitched six games in the three previous seasons combined, has nothing left.
— Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024 -
Certain registrations have been set aside for the disabled.
— Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 1 Apr. 2024 -
McGovern transforms from the disabled, post-stroke Gardner of her later years, to a spritely, naive teenager and a jaded movie star.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023 -
But when the disabled employee says the same thing, the manager feels bad, maybe even guilty, because the disabled employee struggled.
— Steven Aquino, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024 -
After a panic attack at work sent him to the hospital in 2019, the disabled combat veteran quit.
— Melissa Chan, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023 -
South Korea transitioned to a democracy in the late 1980s and has long stopped its practice of grabbing homeless people, the disabled and children off the streets and confining them.
— Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
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