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A brain tumor, depending on its location, type and stage, could impair your cognitive functioning and spatial awareness, which could affect your ability to drive.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Disruptions involving DEAF1 may further impair the body's ability to regenerate healthy muscle.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

She said the scale, height, and mass of the new ballroom would impair her aesthetic, cultural, and historical interests in viewing and appreciating the White House.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

Baroness Brown, chair of the UK's Climate Change Adaptation committee, has warned that "we know high temperatures can significantly impair concentration and performance" of children in schools.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

All rulers of all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers, but they could not afford to encourage any illusion that tended to impair military efficiency.

From "1984" by George Orwell

This impairs our ability to quickly shed excess heat and makes it harder to judge when our bodies are under burden, simply because we can't see as much sweat on our skin or clothing.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

High blood sugar impairs immune function and narrows vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood, making it harder for skin to heal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

Reasons include a person falling into a coma, a form of dementia like Alzheimer’s, head injury or a stroke that impairs their ability to think or express their wishes.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

Or if exits of current positions don’t go well, or simply take a long time, that impairs the ability to raise future funds and continue fee growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

This blindness impairs us in every act of communication.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“At least until the cold impaired their cognitive functions, they knew exactly where they were,” the author writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

She referred to a longstanding American legal doctrine, which stipulates that a court's right to hold a trial is not impaired if the suspect has been the subject of a forceful abduction.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

One potential application involves speech prosthetics, technologies designed to help people communicate when injuries or neurological conditions have impaired their ability to speak.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

The team designed the study to determine whether niacin could restore some of those impaired immune cells and help them destroy tumor cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

There is no atmosphere surrounding the moon to produce clouds or smog, so our view was impaired only by darkness.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

In implementing the law, the government further defined "harm" to include "significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding or sheltering."

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Cedars-Sinai spokesperson Duke Helfand said the hospital would be unable to recruit and retain physicians, nurses, and specialists if the measure passed, dramatically impairing its ability to provide healthcare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

“This highlights a new order and durability of oil/energy risks as the war transitions, notably, from temporary disruptions to more lasting capacity destruction impairing the production and passage of oil and gas,” Varathan said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

“In particular, how effective drones are in impairing production and transportation of crude via the Strait of Hormuz.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

This is because the act of describing a face has the effect of impairing your otherwise effortless ability to subsequently recognize that face.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell