the disabled
noun
: people who are disabled : people who have a disability
She's always been an effective spokesperson for the disabled.
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Hearts have been melted by an adorable video shared on TikTok by Samantha North (@snorth00) showing the incredible moment the disabled cat, named Tibby, got to run around once more.
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
Burke has spent the last year working on an open-source white paper on how fashion brands can better understand the disabled community.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2025
Children under 5, pregnant women, the disabled and the elderly would be among the first to die — not from bullets or bombs but from the conditions created by violence.
—Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
Shortly after the attack, video footage was released by Russian sources that seemed to show the disabled mothership moored near shore.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
Burke has spent the last year working on an open-source white paper on how fashion brands can better understand the disabled community.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2025
Children under 5, pregnant women, the disabled and the elderly would be among the first to die — not from bullets or bombs but from the conditions created by violence.
—Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
Shortly after the attack, video footage was released by Russian sources that seemed to show the disabled mothership moored near shore.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
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“The disabled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20disabled. Accessed 4 Dec. 2025.
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