incapacity
Example Sentences
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Before the changes went through, if someone had limited capacity to work due to a disability or long-term condition, the payment more than doubled because of an incapacity top-up.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
When clinicians blur the line between suffering and incapacity, accommodation loses its meaning, standards lose force, and those with genuine impairments are met with suspicion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
You can do this on the grounds of misconduct, negligence or incapacity, and it sounds as if at least two of those reasons apply to your situation.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025
It is Brett and Jake’s dilemma distilled, her hunger for love, his incapacity, their knowing futility.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
This incapacity fretted him badly and he would sometimes take it out on Rab...
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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