impotent
Example Sentences
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The goalkeeper watched as it dropped in, as impotent in the moment as any of the visiting support.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Rendered impotent by domestication, she’ll do anything to influence human events.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 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
Divesting of power from democratically elected officials has left minsters "impotent" in the face of a bloated civil service, she said.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2024
We’d have dozed off in front of the television set, angry and impotent, perhaps, but without setting fire to anything.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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