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
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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
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The owner of the account is the disabled child and income earned by the account is not taxable.
—Winnie Sun, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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The weather was rough, and strong winds pushed the two schooners perilously close to the disabled steamer.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2023
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To avoid colliding with the disabled steamer, the Ironton cut the tow line.
—Erin Berge, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
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Another tow truck was dispatched to pull the disabled one out of the driveway.
—Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
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Funding was rejected for programs that feed the poor and care for the disabled.
—Fred Grimm, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
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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
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Woo, who opened the season on the disabled list, also is playing for just over the minimum.
—Jack Magruder, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
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Then show them the disabled parking placard from your doctor.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 4 June 2023
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After the initial crash, the disabled Honda stopped in lanes of traffic, Castro said.
—Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Kershaw went on the disabled list twice because of lower-back injuries last season.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
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Mothers, children, and the disabled clutch passels of documents along the sidewalk.
—Abraham Nussbaum and Renee Y. Hsia, STAT, 2 Nov. 2023
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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
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Nor are these bonds limited to those in the disabled community.
—John Hall, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
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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
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Certain registrations have been set aside for the disabled.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 1 Apr. 2024
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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
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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
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In making the Crip Camp documentary with Nicole, and our editors and such, Nicole was not part of the disabled community.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2023
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Naturally, the intrusive Catholic Church has to speak out and some in the disabled community always object claiming the law will be used to rid the world of them.
—Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
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There need to be safer streets for pedestrians — for the mother with her stroller, the disabled person using a wheelchair who can never cross the four lanes of street fast enough because somebody is speeding.
—Julianne Cuba, Curbed, 7 June 2023
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Local laws in other states also provide tax savings for some — seniors, veterans and the disabled among them.
—Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
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The suspects all ran out of the Dodge caravan toward the disabled vehicle, which the driver had evacuated, video from the incident showed.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
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The occupant of the disabled pickup truck was taken to Baylor Grapevine hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and the driver of the Mazda was evaluated at the scene by paramedics.
—Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2024
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Finally, many working or low-income households struggle with the cost and availability of childcare and caregivers for seniors, the disabled, and vulnerable adults.
—Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
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