incapacity

Example Sentences

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But the line between incapacity and hardship is not always clear, especially when poverty and homelessness are involved.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026

When clinicians blur the line between suffering and incapacity, accommodation loses its meaning, standards lose force, and those with genuine impairments are met with suspicion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

An important caveat: delusions six years ago and intermittent bouts of paranoia do not automatically indicate legal incapacity.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025

It is Brett and Jake’s dilemma distilled, her hunger for love, his incapacity, their knowing futility.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

The resort to weapons such as insecticides to control it is a proof of insufficient knowledge and of an incapacity so to guide the processes of nature that brute force becomes unnecessary.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson