incontinent
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The cast’s choices are like weather-balloon data that presage the disaster of the movie’s climax, when everyone behaves like an emotionally incontinent millennial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
He fell into a coma, became incontinent and quadriplegic.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
"It's being that sandwich generation, where you're between incontinent toddlers and incontinent OAPs – and it's nappies at both ends."
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026
If you’ve ever tried to wrangle a hissing, scratching, flailing, selectively incontinent beast into a cat carrier, you’ll appreciate the way Amy Attas practices veterinary medicine: She makes house calls.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
If your aged parents have grown tiresome or incontinent, you put them away where others will deal with their dirty diapers and dementia.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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