paraplegic
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Tabatha Hayden, a paraplegic, had given up on finding an accessible home that she, her husband and their five children could afford.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
The ball first got rolling on Infinite Flow’s development when Hamamoto reached out to competitive paraplegic bodybuilder Adelfo Cerame Jr. via Facebook and asked if he’d be interested in becoming her wheelchair dance partner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
"She is paralysed from the waist down, and doctors have said it will take months to determine whether she will be permanently paraplegic or not."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024
When I met her she was a paraplegic; eventually she became a quadriplegic.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
He sat upright in his chair, not looking at Mrs. Olinski or the blackboard but staring into the middle distance, as if looking at the word paraplegic or the paraplegic herself was too painful.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
His work on paraplegics learning to walk again was featured at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival: New Frontier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Of those, 44 were marked as related to paraplegics, quadriplegics, other types of wheelchair users and other assistive-device users.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
Goydos remembers reading a story about a group of researchers who interviewed several lottery winners and several paraplegics and then going back to talk to the same people about their lives a year later.
From Golf Digest ● May 21, 2018
Completely locked-in patients achieve a higher level of satisfaction with life than many paraplegics, presumably because they have come to terms with their fate and their loss.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2018
Some paraplegics seem to live a fuller life than ever.
From A Matter of Proportion by Anne Walker
Vocabulary lists containing paraplegic
This Week in Pop Culture: January 12 -18, 2019
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The View from Saturday
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