impotent
Example Sentences
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In recent weeks, with Russian air defenses increasingly impotent, Ukraine has unleashed its drone campaign.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
And they feel similarly impotent over what they do want - a bustling High Street, a new medical centre.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025
Rendered impotent by domestication, she’ll do anything to influence human events.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
This impotent rage factor is important for understanding what's happening in Los Angeles.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2025
But Varney also perceived something else: the silver eagles on his collar rendered all the muscles of all the light colonels in the Marine Corps impotent.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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