disablement

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disablement
Noun
  • Oz now directs an agency with a $1.4 trillion budget that administers Medicare for seniors, people with disabilities, and survivors, as well as Medicaid, which serves low-income Americans.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Both cuts will affect students with disabilities, experts say.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The response is similar concerning United’s impotence in front of goal.
    Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The local government’s impotence reflects a broader dynamic in Iraq: Baghdad’s reliance on Shiite militias has allowed those groups to gain undue power.
    Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2016
Noun
  • These things will make your video content more accessible for non-native speakers and users with hearing impairments.
    Karan Sharma, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The increase in loss is attributed to impairment charges on intangible assets and changes in fair value of contingent consideration.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
  • According to this view, the outside world has been generous to Africa, providing substantial aid in recent decades, leaving no excuse for the continent’s debility.
    Howard W. French, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Noun
  • In that moment of grief and exhaustion, something shifted.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Breast cancer survivor Julie Swallow, 56, initially chalked up her exhaustion to being overworked.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Marchand Jumps Ship Captain Brad Marchand, now 36, also suffered an upper-body injury in early March, and has undergone multiple surgeries over the past few years.
    Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The top returner among the running backs is Jalen Berger, who became a bigger factor last season once rounding into form from injury.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And yet Francis has never been shy about showing his frailty, age or infirmities in ways that seem unthinkable for public figures for whom any sign of fragility can threaten their authority and undermine their agenda.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Kureishi has been ambushed by the physical infirmities of age in a rare way.
    Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Persistent exposure to air pollution can cause permanent harm, creating health problems for children and setting them up to become sicker adults.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Is there really harm in encouraging our kids to share their passions online?
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Disablement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disablement. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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