impotent
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Its purpose was to care for "twelve poor feeble and impotent old men and four old women" who were looked after by a housewife responsible for cooking, cleaning, and general care.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
Rendered impotent by domestication, she’ll do anything to influence human events.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
Their return to the second-tier competition was initially an impotent one, but the introduction of goalscorer Kelechi Iheanacho ignited their play and provided what Rodgers called "a great platform" of a first point.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 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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