impuissance

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Recent Examples of impuissance But all of that will be moot if Washington’s rushing attack is not significantly improved from the impuissance of last season. Ben Baskin, SI.com, 14 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impuissance
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Similar to the chart of WTI crude oil, the VanEck Oil Services ETF (OIH) has improved intermediate-term momentum and no signs of upside exhaustion, increasing the likelihood of a breakout above a Fibonacci retracement level near $257 for a secondary objective of $298.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 16 June 2025
  • The condition can cause symptoms like exhaustion, irritability, unintentional weight loss, hand tremors, and skin discoloration, according to the Mayo Clinic. About 1 percent of Americans have Graves' disease, according to Yale Medicine.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • Viewers have shared their own experiences with chronic anxiety, fatigue, and illness, some expressing relief at finally hearing an explanation that connects the dots surrounding their symptoms and broader societal conditions.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • Add alert fatigue and organizations are left with blind spots hidden behind dashboards.
    Rick Hutchinson, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • As something of a companion piece to More, Jacques Deray’s summer thriller La Piscine is a far more dramatic and insidious tale of tropical desire, lassitude, and violence.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
  • The result of this lassitude is that cars still rule the streets.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Impuissance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impuissance. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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