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Partisanship, the first president observed, “serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

The paradox is that trauma’s lingering impacts can enfeeble human connection, weakening even the strongest of social bonds.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

Their goal is to blunt and enfeeble criticism and distract from its truthfulness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

Abood held fast for several decades in the face of a well-funded movement to reverse the decision and enfeeble public sector unions.

From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2017

In the eyes of Judaism, to neglect or enfeeble the body, the instrument of the soul, is altogether sinful.

From Jewish Theology by Kaufmann Kohler

But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Now suppose some shock or strain enfeebles your centre of consciousness, so that it ceases to be able to co-ordinate all the mental processes it has been accustomed to superintend.

From The Invader A Novel by Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa) Woods

It impairs the functions of the brain, clouds the understanding, and enfeebles the memory.”—Dr.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

This enfeebles and prostrates the parts that supply the blood and nervous fluid to the active organ.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter

Help from the outside may be convenient, but it enfeebles; all self-help invigorates.

From Increasing Personal Efficiency by Russell H. Conwell

She has traveled to Kyiv aiming to set up partnerships between enfeebled German automobile and machine makers—industries that currently shed 15,000 specialist jobs a month—and Ukrainian arms companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

She engenders compassion as Elisabeth grapples with her aging body, and a scene where she is enfeebled and struggles to get out of a chair is both achingly painful and achingly funny.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2024

Initially prematurely aged and enfeebled because of the conniving evil wizard Saruman, he is restored to vitality by the good wizard Gandalf.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2024

Added to this, Congress, which governed India for decades, looks enfeebled and in decline.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2024

The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

His balding head’s scraggly hair—in contrast to the wigs worn by just about every Frenchman at the time, no matter the social class—is both ennobling and a bit enfeebling, like an aging but distinguished mane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

They fear that the enfeebling of the judiciary will compromise the rule of law and make the economy unattractive for investment.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

It’s an image that evokes an enfeebling combination of envy and rage, as it becomes increasingly clear that the botters are perpetually one step ahead of our mere keyboards and mouses.

From The Verge ● May 25, 2022

That is, what if books by Coelho, Mitch Albom and others don’t satisfy a market so much as create it, enfeebling their readers while purporting to strengthen them with revelations?

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2020

Very many imagine progress to be a struggle in behalf of Germany against the enfeebling system of innumerable small states, or a battling against religious rigorism and priest-rule in secular concerns.

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden