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Recent Examples of impotence To that end, Democratic impotence in the face of Trump and the GOP has left the party’s voter base increasingly looking for a leader to emerge who can lead the fight against Trump. Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025 Providers who volunteer and are accepted will agree to seek prior authorization for 17 items and services, including skin substitutes, deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease, impotence treatment, and arthroscopy for knee osteoarthritis. Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025 Tempest’s description evokes a dreamlike horror, laced with black humor: Men were still stuck in the mud all over the battlefield, imploring help to lift them out : half crazy with the sense of their own impotence, and the enemy shelling. . . . Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025 There have been encouraging signs in other games or even in consecutive games, only to have the Padres revert to being the offensive impatience and impotence. Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for impotence
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inability
Noun
  • Irankunda’s goal was the result of Niko Sigur’s carelessness with the ball in Canada’s own half, and Luc de Fougerolles’ inability to clear the ball as well.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Announcement of the school’s closing in 2014 was prompted by its inability to make payroll.
    Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Impotence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impotence. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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