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Noun
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Yet there’s still this assumption that actors with disabilities aren’t there.—
Amy Marturana Winderl,
SELF,
29 Apr. 2025 -
Veterans with disabilities are eligible for VALife, a whole life policy that offers $40,000 in coverage to applicants up to age 80.—
Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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And yet, progress waits for no one—failing to adapt will lead to inefficiencies and an inability to meet evolving consumer demands, causing such banks to be left behind.—
Roman Eloshvili,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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And there’s a blunt, pulp poetry to Manny’s conclusion (if not a particularly sensitive one), driven to despair by an inability to live in the dissonant but very real space between one’s religious moral compass and the realities of one’s life.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But that has historically been interpreted as misconduct or incapacity, not policy disagreements.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
17 Apr. 2025
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Vargas Llosa, who died in Lima this past weekend at the age of 89, nurtured a lifelong obsession with his native Peru: its corrupt political ecosystem, its inequality, its incapacity to make good on its promise.—
Ilan Stavans,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Gaucheness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaucheness. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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