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

A 25bps rate cut could reduce sector net profit by about 1.6%, while rising oil prices may lead to higher gross impaired loans, he reckons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 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

It is a third Paralympic medal overall for the visually impaired skier, who had recorded two fourth-place finishes earlier in these Games.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

Rita had a keen mind, yet those close to her thought that her judgment was impaired by what one person described as “a love that was truly blind.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann