handicapped
Example Sentences
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It has long been handicapped by a rule requiring full consensus among members, meaning decisions are few and far between.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
Those failures handicapped heroic efforts from fire crews on day one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Cognitive fluency and watery judicial eyes aside, Arriaga and I are still handicapped without a PC.
From Slate • Sep. 17, 2024
He won because his season-long performances gave him a handicapped head start.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024
He is neither disabled, handicapped, nor developmentally delayed in any way, so there was no reason to assume anyone would take issue with his admittance to Beecher Prep—whether it is an inclusion school or not.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
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