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impotent

[im-puh-tuhnt] / ˈɪm pə tənt /


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Rendered impotent by domestication, she’ll do anything to influence human events.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

A former Conservative MP has quit the party, branding it "impotent", and wants to stand in next May's Senedd election.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

This impotent rage factor is important for understanding what's happening in Los Angeles.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2025

The hit film, based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, promotes themes of female empowerment and resistance against a grifting, impotent entertainer posing as an all-powerful being.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024

In a January 1865 speech in the House, Garfield said, “This body of slavery lies before us among the dead enemies of the republic, mortally wounded, impotent in its fiendish wickedness.”

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow




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