inability

Many pointed particularly to an inability to put out the fires that have ravaged vast swaths of Borneo and Sumatra islands since July.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

His film is a self-reflexive study of the inability to act as people expect — of masking and deception.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Specific reserves are set aside for commercial loans as soon as there is any hint of delinquency or an inability to renew maturing loans.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

Your inability to simply complete a fair catch led directly to a Seahawks touchdown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

The Agassi tape is a perfect illustration of our inability to describe how we behave in the moment.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

But the frustration is that Australia, at times, have not outplayed England - instead, they have been gifted opportunities to win by England's inabilities to do the basics, like catching the ball.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025

But the rollout of aid has been slow, partly reflecting the Haitian government’s own inabilities to oversee and coordinate it, an echo of the problems following the 2010 quake.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021

Hewitt’s own inabilities aside, the actress can at least play the part.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

But these inabilities do not exceed the corporeal: physical growth is not a metaphor for emotional growth.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2018

The absence of it is mainly due to a concatenation of inabilities on the part of the writers.

From The English Novel by George Saintsbury