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impotent

[im-puh-tuhnt] / ˈɪm pə tənt /


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They look even better when you factor in that only two of those games have been at home - with a previously impotent and misfiring team putting eight goals past Falkirk and Kilmarnock.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025

Rendered impotent by domestication, she’ll do anything to influence human events.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

The hit film, based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, promotes themes of female empowerment and resistance against a grifting, impotent entertainer posing as an all-powerful being.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024

It is a long time since City were so impotent at home, unable to lay a glove on Arsenal in the areas that mattered.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2024

Constitutional amendments guaranteeing African Americans “equal protection of the laws” and the right to vote proved as impotent as the Emancipation Proclamation once a white backlash against Reconstruction gained steam.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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