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Recent Examples of disablement
These can cause severe scarring or disablement and may lead to amputations.
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Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Playing Arnie, the younger brother to Gilbert (Johnny Depp), DiCaprio doesn’t permit his character to be a simple, adorable variation on disablement.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Playing Arnie, the younger brother to Gilbert (Johnny Depp), DiCaprio doesn’t permit his character to be a simple, adorable variation on disablement.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disablement
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Amputation might have been the safest expedient, but the mine would have had to pay permanent disability.—
Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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For Social Security disability beneficiaries, gig work can offer flexibility and greater independence.—
Diane Winiarski,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Decadence is sensuality and impotence, opulence and decay.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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But these songs are also honest, sometimes despite themselves, about the feelings of impotence associated with watching history play out on a screen.—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2026
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Accessibility While there are two rooms suitable for those with mobility impairments, the grounds have irregular surfaces and some steep gradients.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Therapy is appropriate when there's a diagnosable condition, significant distress, or impairment.—
Megan Bruneau,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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His trajectory is one of softening, from the swaggering knight of the opening to the irrepressible lover of the second act to his final physical debility.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2026
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In Will There Ever Be Another You, the main character struggles with an illness similar to long COVID, descending into a state of debility and psychosis as readers experience the chaos of her unraveling life.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
26 Sep. 2025
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Facing the World, which helps children with facial disfigurements gain access to reconstructive surgery, was co-founded in 2002 by her father, plastic surgeon Norman Waterhouse.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
28 May 2026
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The cast also includes Naomi Ackie, who is seen in the trailer, reportedly as the scientist Hagen turns to for help following his disfigurement.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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What the poll cannot quite capture is the exhaustion driving those beliefs.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
2 June 2026
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What happened when exhaustion appeared?—
Irma Davarashvili,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy appeared to escape serious injury after being involved in a violent collision during a 3-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on Thursday.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2026
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Some big names won't be making the trip to North America for the World Cup due to injury problems.—
Alex Connor,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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And by that, researchers mean methods to drastically reduce the amount of illness and infirmity that currently afflict people in old age.—
John Ramos,
CBS News,
3 May 2026
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Colette, Mark Twain, and William Wordsworth all wrote habitually from bed, for reasons having to do with infirmity, comfort, and warding off distraction; Frida Kahlo painted self-portraits from bed, including the dreams that transcended her physical confinement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Disablement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disablement. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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