enfeeble

Example Sentences

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Partisanship, the first president observed, “serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

In a letter to Dr. Gabadadze and other deans, they wrote that they worried about setting “a precedent, completely lacking in due process, that could undermine faculty freedoms and correspondingly enfeeble proven pedagogic practices.”

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022

Their goal is to blunt and enfeeble criticism and distract from its truthfulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2022

Abood held fast for several decades in the face of a well-funded movement to reverse the decision and enfeeble public sector unions.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2017

If we try to teach speech too early and really succeed in fixing the child’s attention upon its tongue, we enfeeble its power of utterance.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman