inability

An inefficient youth pipeline, competition from other sports and an inability to develop a superstar are some of the reasons why the U.S. keeps losing in the World Cup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

Recently I was talking to business leaders in Phoenix and their lament was not job loss but the inability to find the right workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

One consistent narrative, however, even 250 years in, is our country’s inability to reckon with the genocide of Indigenous people that kicked the whole thing off.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026

Another factor that gamers bring up about a digital-only gaming ecosystem is the impact on pricing, and the inability to resell games.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Faeries make up for their inability to lie with a panoply of deceptions and cruelties.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

But the frustration is that Australia, at times, have not outplayed England - instead, they have been gifted opportunities to win by England's inabilities to do the basics, like catching the ball.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025

In April 2020, the Department of Transportation received over 17,000 complaints about inabilities to get refunds for flights, a more than 17,000-percent increase from just 98 in the same month in 2019.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

Hewitt’s own inabilities aside, the actress can at least play the part.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

But these inabilities do not exceed the corporeal: physical growth is not a metaphor for emotional growth.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2018

He oversteps, too, the inabilities of the histrionic art.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various