enfeeble
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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
How, in other words, fear and neglect, rather than the waywardness Vogel rails against, are what really enfeeble the mind.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022
It will forever be the least dangerous branch, but that is no reason to enfeeble it further.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2018
"Not only," said he, "are these pleasures fleeting, they are also succeeded by disgust; and while they enfeeble the body they debase the mind."
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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President Obama's Farewell Address
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