as in inability
the lack of sufficient ability, power, or means
the congressional committee's essential impotence in affecting the management of the war was frustrating to its members
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Social media, though, offers an alternative to this impotence.
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
As such, side effects of surgery and radiation therapy for prostate cancer often include incontinence, impotence and bowel dysfunction.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Jan. 2025
Among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea, a man carrying an infant is said to slacken with impotence.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
His failure to free 52 American hostages in Iran for more than a year became a microcosm of U.S. impotence.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2025
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Callum Booth, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
As such, side effects of surgery and radiation therapy for prostate cancer often include incontinence, impotence and bowel dysfunction.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Jan. 2025
Among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea, a man carrying an infant is said to slacken with impotence.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
His failure to free 52 American hostages in Iran for more than a year became a microcosm of U.S. impotence.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for impotence
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“Impotence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impotence. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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