lameness

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Recent Examples of lameness Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Sep. 2025 Countless more suffer silently with every step from preexisting, untreated injuries and lameness. Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lameness
Noun
  • The governor skillfully countered attacks from Republicans and conservative media regarding Biden’s mental infirmity and physical limitations.
    Matt Klink, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
  • The decision of Democrats to ignore Biden’s infirmity and boost him in 2024 looked risky at the time.
    Michael Graham, Boston Herald, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
  • President Biden’s troubles — lingering inflation, wars and rumors of wars, his debility — could have benefited any Republican.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • But disability claims are more complicated than ordering toothpaste, according to SSA officials and experts, and Social Security’s customer base is older and more likely to have an intellectual disability than the average Amazon Prime member.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Students with disabilities whose families earn up to 500% of the federal poverty guidelines — $160,750 for a family of four — would be prioritized first.
    Lina Ruiz September 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In playing the character later on, was there a sort of reverse-engineering of his decrepitude?
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The clinics’ decrepitude was regularly mentioned in health ministry meetings.
    Mara Kardas-Nelson, The Dial, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The first cohort of seniors to have contended — not always enthusiastically — with a digital society has reached the age when cognitive impairment becomes more common.
    Paul Spann, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This impairment to the display image from the rearview camera can reduce the driver's view and potentially increase the risk of a crash.
    Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • It could be argued that this trio of managers followed each other at United because their strengths answered the previous manager’s weaknesses.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The weakness was most pronounced on the goods-producing side of the economy.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025

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

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