inability

This transfer to early generations means that contributions must compensate for workers’ inability to invest their contributions and earn interest.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Seems to me I was just reading about how the acquiring of players James asked for was considered a factor in the team’s inability to put together a cohesive unit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

Salt, usually ultra-aggressive from the outset, had been frustrated by his inability to time the ball early in his innings.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

But Lily is trapped by her inability to imagine life outside of the upper-crust world in which she was raised.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

After multiple psychiatric evaluations and treatments, Joe was discharged for an inability to adjust emotionally to military life.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Researchers also found partners expressed feelings of high stress, a diminished sense of personal growth and worth, difficulties or inabilities within their caregiving roles, and a general sense of feeling unsupported.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

In April 2020, the Department of Transportation received over 17,000 complaints about inabilities to get refunds for flights, a more than 17,000-percent increase from just 98 in the same month in 2019.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

Hewitt’s own inabilities aside, the actress can at least play the part.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

But these inabilities do not exceed the corporeal: physical growth is not a metaphor for emotional growth.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2018

The artist has made a kind of subtle crime of his habitual expression, his emotional monotonies, and his intellectual inabilities.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden