impotent
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Rangers were a muddle of impotent passing for passing's sake under predecessor Russell Martin - but Rohl's messaging appears more pragmatic.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025
Rendered impotent by domestication, she’ll do anything to influence human events.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
"I'm now in another limbo and just feel totally impotent."
From BBC • Jan. 7, 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
She’d seen the way they screamed at the living, their fits of impotent rage on the sidewalks and in the train stations.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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