Examples of able-bodied in a Sentence
every able-bodied young man in the village had been sent off to fight in the war
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Scott argues able-bodied low-income adults are drawing far too much of Medicaid spending in states that expanded the program, such as California and New York.
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Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 20 June 2025
American patriarchy is a system that has long defined national identity by the dominance of white, cisgender, straight, able-bodied men.
—Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Under the House bill, as many as 11 million lower-income Americans could lose Medicaid health insurance over the next decade, due to changes such as a work requirement for able-bodied adults without dependents.
—Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
And being front of the camera, say as an actor or a model, was a career once mostly closed for those who didn't appear perfectly able-bodied.
—Alan Schwarz, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 20 June 2025
American patriarchy is a system that has long defined national identity by the dominance of white, cisgender, straight, able-bodied men.
—Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Under the House bill, as many as 11 million lower-income Americans could lose Medicaid health insurance over the next decade, due to changes such as a work requirement for able-bodied adults without dependents.
—Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
And being front of the camera, say as an actor or a model, was a career once mostly closed for those who didn't appear perfectly able-bodied.
—Alan Schwarz, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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“Able-bodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/able-bodied. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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