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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lameness
Noun
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Is Jill Biden Edith Wilson, an overprotective First Lady clinging to power in the face of her husband’s obvious infirmity?—
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His zeal seemed even stranger when juxtaposed with a sensible approach to my own infirmities.—
Kayla Aletha Welch,
Longreads,
19 Nov. 2024
Noun
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The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.—
Jenny Noyce,
JSTOR Daily,
28 June 2024
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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
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The aim of the medical humanities is to investigate the experiences of embodiment—including illness, pain, disability—from the subjective perspective of the human, rather than the objective perspective of the practitioner.—
Christopher Rim,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Post The need for more inclusive workplaces for all is undeniable — 91% of workers have experienced discrimination related to race, gender, disability, age, or body size, and 94% of workers care about feeling a sense of belonging at work.—
Lily Zheng,
Harvard Business Review,
23 Jan. 2025
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Recent experience, including Mauricio Macri’s 2015-2019 Presidency, when Caputo and Federico Sturzenegger were also in charge of the nation’s economic levers, ended up with jarring devaluations that initiated a new and deeper descent into economic decrepitude.—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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If that’s not enough for perennial contention, then the rest of the AFC East’s decrepitude will keep that window wide open.—
Tim Graham,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
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Excluding adults who had mild cognitive impairment, dementia or incomplete data, the Kanazawa scientists looked at the data of more than 8,500 adults aged 65 and older.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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The increase in net loss was primarily due to higher operating expenses, including a significant impairment expense.—
Quartz Bot,
Quartz,
13 Jan. 2025
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But Price acknowledged that the case revealed multiple weaknesses in how police handled homicide investigations at the time, leading to widespread reforms that remain in place today.—
Michael Gordon,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Jan. 2025
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But dunking has become another item on a laundry list of weaknesses for Williams to fix.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Lameness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lameness. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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