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Recent Examples of incapacity The incapacity of the agency has also been laced with corruption. Elizabeth Glazer, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025 An estate plan outlines how your assets will be managed or distributed in case of your death or incapacity. True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025 But that has historically been interpreted as misconduct or incapacity, not policy disagreements. Nik Popli, Time, 17 Apr. 2025 The conjunction of crushing needs and the state's incapacity created fertile ground for NGOs: even before the quake, there were around 10,000 of them in the country. Paul Collier, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011 See All Example Sentences for incapacity
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inability
Noun
  • If the continuity, cohesion and familiarity offered by those who stayed does not prove enough to keep Leeds in the league, the inability to sell efficiently in the summer window will be seen as one of the failings.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • France meanwhile faces an inability to push through budget legislation and a public unwilling to accept the spending cuts or tax increases needed to change its economic fundamentals.
    Jenni Reid, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Incapacity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incapacity. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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