inability
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This transfer to early generations means that contributions must compensate for workers’ inability to invest their contributions and earn interest.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
An inefficient youth pipeline, competition from other sports and an inability to develop a superstar are some of the reasons why the U.S. keeps losing in the World Cup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Recently I was talking to business leaders in Phoenix and their lament was not job loss but the inability to find the right workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Salt, usually ultra-aggressive from the outset, had been frustrated by his inability to time the ball early in his innings.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
You'd think an ultra-attractive mother like mine would understand why my appearance was hampered by my Frida Kahlo eyebrows, coupled with my inability to paint stunning self-portraits of said eyebrows.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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Researchers also found partners expressed feelings of high stress, a diminished sense of personal growth and worth, difficulties or inabilities within their caregiving roles, and a general sense of feeling unsupported.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025
In April 2020, the Department of Transportation received over 17,000 complaints about inabilities to get refunds for flights, a more than 17,000-percent increase from just 98 in the same month in 2019.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 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
And for all the irritation and humiliations centering round his loss of Rawdon and his inabilities with regard to Dora he blamed Ethel.
From The Man Between, an International Romance by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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