aphasic

Example Sentences

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My familiarity with Chaikin comes mainly from his productions of Samuel Beckett and Shepard that he directed late in his career, after a stroke had left him aphasic.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2021

On those immediate postelection mornings in November when I lay in bed aphasic and estranged from myself, whatever did not address the current predicament seemed unworthy.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2016

“You know, dear, maybe you want to write the first aphasic memoir,” she recalled telling him two months after the stroke.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2015

In another case, a woman who had suffered a left-hemispheric stroke and was dramatically aphasic, unable to say more than the occasional random syllable, was also prescribed Ambien because she had trouble falling asleep.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2014

The shelves of plumbing equip-ment, and there seem to be acres of them, contain not a single item I can name, which gives me an idea of what it feels like to be aphasic.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich