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Recent Examples of impotency
Black 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.
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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
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
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And therein lies a sense of impotence, because our ability to discern the consequential ghoulishness of this nation’s policies–LOL that’s crazy!–doesn’t in and of itself constitute resistance.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
The New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2025
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On the same day that Trump regaled the more boisterous crowd just across the river at CPAC with his tales of political retribution, several hundred activists and insiders gathered in downtown D.C. to make sense of their current impotence.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Impotency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impotency. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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