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inability

[in-uh-bil-i-tee] / ˌɪn əˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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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

Most worrisome of all is Manning’s inability to throw the football to his own team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Your inability to simply complete a fair catch led directly to a Seahawks touchdown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 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

So these little nuggets of problematic facticity—the inability of garlic to disempower a magnet or of goat’s blood to re-empower it—found their way into della Porta’s text.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

He felt that he had had an opportunity and mismanaged it, and a sense of his inabilities in all social matters mortified and fretted him all the day afterward.

From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr


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