incapable

Example Sentences

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As Sandler capably plays him, he’s haunted — doomed to work in a kind of karmic penance, incapable of forgetting what might have been.

From New York Times

“He is incapable of stopping it, incapable of containing it — he manages to do only one thing: amplify it.”

From New York Times

He’s incapable of not playing all out, believing it cheapens the game and himself.

From Seattle Times

But even Germany, the world’s fourth-largest economy and Europe’s manufacturing dynamo, has been incapable of jump-starting military industrial production on a timeline suited to Ukraine’s dire needs.

From Washington Post

But algorithms are incapable of independently understanding the worth of what they’re generating.

From Washington Post