inability

"They may experience wasting and an inability to eat, which can be due to changes in the brain's central drive, leading to loss of appetite and initiative, increased energy expenditure, and difficulties feeding themselves."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

They beat the Pumas but, again, their inability to be savage on the other side of the ball saw them conceding 38 points and five tries.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

The risk is that consumers’ incomes won’t be able to keep up with prices, resulting in debt, broken budgets and an inability to keep spending.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Gamble recalled a performer who writhed on the floor while sob-singing Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5,” which could be sad considering the protagonist’s inability to maintain a steady relationship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

So, despite my mother having a total meltdown over her inability to give her older sister a “proper funeral,” Lucy was cremated.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

But the frustration is that Australia, at times, have not outplayed England - instead, they have been gifted opportunities to win by England's inabilities to do the basics, like catching the ball.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025

But the rollout of aid has been slow, partly reflecting the Haitian government’s own inabilities to oversee and coordinate it, an echo of the problems following the 2010 quake.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 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

It is not you that are to blame for this sad gap in our correspondence; it is I, or rather it is my misfortunes, and miserable inabilities, broken resolutions, etc., etc.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Thomas Carlyle