impaired

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"We recognise it was an accident, you know when young people play sometimes their sense of judgement is impaired either by excitement or by not understanding what is happening at that particular time."

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Attorneys for Grossman and Erickson argued that, although the incident was tragic, there was no evidence that their clients were racing or impaired that would justify an award of hundreds of millions of dollars.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Overall, the findings demonstrated that sleep loss impaired both brain function and behavior through a specific neural circuit.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

Boland says Bank of Montreal’s credit remained manageable, with the impaired provision for the credit losses ratio relatively stable on-quarter at 45 basis points.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Such a drop in carbon dioxide may have impaired the “greenhouse” property of the atmosphere, which holds in the solar heat otherwise lost by radiation from the earth’s surface.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas