immobile
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"Haven't stood on my feet in over a week... been in a hospital bed immobile since my race," she said in a social media post.
From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026
Speaking to BBC News NI, her daughter Fiona McAreavey said her mum, who was immobile and incontinent, lay on a trolley in a hospital corridor for 15 hours.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026
Predictably too, the greatest burden of taxes fell on the most immobile, who lost their employment, not on the corporations that formally bore the burden of the tax.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
At the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., Rodney Taylor, a double amputee, was rendered nearly immobile.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025
He was a member of the Eleatic school of thought, whose founder, Parmenides, held that the underlying nature of the universe was changeless and immobile.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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