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Recent Examples of incapacity The President’s ironclad hegemony had become a pathetic circus of blunders until the IMF deal, threatening to prove campaign predictions of amateurism and incapacity to govern true, just as the campaign for the midterm elections gets under way. Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 20 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 But that has historically been interpreted as misconduct or incapacity, not policy disagreements. Nik Popli, Time, 17 Apr. 2025 Vargas Llosa, who died in Lima this past weekend at the age of 89, nurtured a lifelong obsession with his native Peru: its corrupt political ecosystem, its inequality, its incapacity to make good on its promise. Ilan Stavans, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for incapacity
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inability
Noun
  • Boos rained down much of the evening, with frustration directed at the referees and the Checkers’ inability to convert on their powerplay opportunities.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 24 June 2025
  • Our inability to record these sweltering spells in a more conspicuous way is shared by the natural world, which rarely shows the marks of an episode of hot weather in any lasting way.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025

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“Incapacity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incapacity. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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