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disability

noun as in physical or mental impairment

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An IQ below 70 generally indicates someone with intellectual disability (ID).

As a matter of dollars and cents, America in the short term may be able to afford disability and food stamps.

Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, a longtime disability advocate, has made HCBS a priority, a Harkin aide told The Daily Beast.

Jason Kingsley, the son of one of the producers, would go on to appear 55 times on the show talking about his disability.

What if the pain her mother and doctors observed had nothing to do with disability, but was in fact pain?

Their disability however has been largely removed by statutes in all the states, as we shall learn in another place.

But a disability arising after the statute has begun to run in his favor will not prevent it from running.

In the face of such motives, in the disability under which I labor of stopping the evil, I had to seek my own safety.

On the 14th of October, 1862, Mr. Walter was honorably discharged from the service on account of disability.

(b) For total or partial disability for less than five years, 60 per cent.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disability, such as: cognitive impairment, impairment, incapacitation, intellectual disability, debilitation, and limitation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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