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Recent Examples of impotencyBlack Sun is set in the time of an uninhabitable drought and follows Kai, who struggles with his retracting genital and his wife, Ling, who demeans him with this impotency.—Sara Merican, Deadline, 16 May 2025 Rheon plays Meurig Jenkins who, along with Colin White (Rhodri), Tommy Cadogan (Rhys), Peetham ‘Pete’ Shah (Sharma) and Eddie O’Connor (Jones), is suffering from impotency.—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023 The plot follows Meurig Jenkins (Rheon), Colin White (Rhodri), Tommy Cadogan (Rhys), Peetham ‘Pete’ Shah (Sharma) and Eddie O’Connor (Jones), who all have one thing in common: impotency.—Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2023 Additionally, public health expert Dr. Leana Wen recently told PEOPLE that impotency is not a known side effect of any of the COVID-19 vaccines that are currently authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.—Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 20 Sep. 2021 When asked about the impotency remark, Whitty sought to stress that most people are ignoring baseless claims and are getting the vaccines — 81.2% of people 16 and older in Britain are fully vaccinated.—BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2021 According to the study, otherwise healthy men developed impotency after COVID-19 infection made its way into their penile tissue.—Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2021 Knowing how much of pitchers’ effectiveness to attribute to gummier grips will take time to study, but an extended period of offensive impotency had the league and its hitters looking for solutions.—New York Times, 25 June 2021 Fears of impotency, seen most recently among Muslim communities in the states of Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Assam also been a major driver of hesitancy.—Arunabh Saikia, Quartz India, 13 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impotency
impotence
Noun
Donald Trump’s one hundred days, from January 20 to April 30, 2025, will stand as a monument to the bloated, twisted power of the American Presidency and to the impotence of the U.S. Congress.
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Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
And as the extent of the damage grew, so too did her feeling of impotence.
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