incontinent
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A moment of heightened perception comes halfway through the book when David becomes incontinent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
He fell into a coma, became incontinent and quadriplegic.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Janette, 67, who was a former carer herself, has dementia and is doubly incontinent.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
After he teed off in 2003 on the Fox teenage drama “The O.C.” as a “moody, moon-faced trifle,” the show fired back with a hospital scene featuring a patient named Tom Shales, who is incontinent.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long- drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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