inability

I wonder if your unwillingness or inability to move on from the accumulation phase of your retirement is because, after 35 years, saving and investing has been synonymous with psychological safety.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

In reality, even a monopolist wouldn’t be able to extract all consumer surplus, because of the presence of alternatives and the inability to fully know consumers’ willingness to pay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

In this series, he has two hits and two strikeouts in eight at-bats, and his inability to refrain from swinging at pitches outside the strike zone has become a glaring weakness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

In a prevention of future deaths report James Bennett, a coroner for Herefordshire, said the inability for police forces to provide round-the-clock specialist search officers was being impeded by a lack of training provision.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

It all comes to the same thing—a refusal or inability to face the situation squarely.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Researchers also found partners expressed feelings of high stress, a diminished sense of personal growth and worth, difficulties or inabilities within their caregiving roles, and a general sense of feeling unsupported.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

In April 2020, the Department of Transportation received over 17,000 complaints about inabilities to get refunds for flights, a more than 17,000-percent increase from just 98 in the same month in 2019.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

Hewitt’s own inabilities aside, the actress can at least play the part.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

But these inabilities do not exceed the corporeal: physical growth is not a metaphor for emotional growth.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2018

And for all the irritation and humiliations centering round his loss of Rawdon and his inabilities with regard to Dora he blamed Ethel.

From The Man Between, an International Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr