impaired

Example Sentences

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This impaired their ability to send information about appropriate defensive responses to other parts of the brain.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

When mutations disrupt this channel, pH regulation is impaired.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

For patients with Type 2 diabetes, for people whose endogenous GLP-1 signaling is impaired, they represent a meaningful advance.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

Unlike stalled tankers, which can sail the moment the strait reopens, impaired infrastructure takes months to rebuild and forced shutdowns can permanently destroy capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

I stopped where people stopped or gathered, I listened and looked and felt, and in the process had a picture of my country the accuracy of which was impaired only by my own shortcomings.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck