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debility

[dih-bil-i-tee] / dɪˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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If your pain is from nerve compression, a disc issue or joint degeneration, inactivity can cause muscles to tighten, pain to worsen, loss of physical condition and more debility.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2025

This season, the writers on “Succession” have been playing up the age-related debility and mental fogginess of their crotchety corporate monarch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

Death, loss, distemper, debility: these have haunted his art ever since.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

Whence the debility, the infantile degeneration of this imaginary.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2020

I have employed it frequently in cases of intestinal hemorrhage, and even in cases of great debility, and have never yet had any reason to repent my having done so.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

To really good contemporary artists, however, the debilities inherent to art made in a very small size are merely challenges to be met.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Among a population of veterans who have a high incidence of mental and physical debilities, some get discouraged and drop out of the process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025

But his diagnosis of America’s debilities is more persuasive than his prescriptions to remedy them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2018

Such debilities can be found in many people with dementia.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2015

Then, as all particular constitutions have their debilities, this provision for temporary obliviousness may become an infirmity, and in some is an habitual and chronic infirmity.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various




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