incapacity

Example Sentences

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She suffered difficult pregnancies, physical illness and depression, often feeling exhausted to the point of incapacity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

An important caveat: delusions six years ago and intermittent bouts of paranoia do not automatically indicate legal incapacity.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025

It is Brett and Jake’s dilemma distilled, her hunger for love, his incapacity, their knowing futility.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

The idea that, instead of government overreach and urban poverty, the national conversation would have shifted to government incapacity and urban prosperity, would have surprised me then.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2025

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong incapacity is worse.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams