inability

The inability to deal with a free-kick, the failure to pick up the goalscorer in the first instance and then multiple calamities in the concession of the second goal.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Many pointed particularly to an inability to put out the fires that have ravaged vast swaths of Borneo and Sumatra islands since July.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

His film is a self-reflexive study of the inability to act as people expect — of masking and deception.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Insurance—or the inability to acquire it at an affordable price—has the potential to help police AI by imposing guardrails on both developers and users as a condition of coverage, brokers and insurers say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Having recovered from my sudden inability to keep saliva in my mouth, I said, “Did you break up because you moved here?”

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Researchers also found partners expressed feelings of high stress, a diminished sense of personal growth and worth, difficulties or inabilities within their caregiving roles, and a general sense of feeling unsupported.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 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

The modern isms must be viewed with consideration, for there are many impostors concealing their inabilities by flocking to these less understood fields.

From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Matthew Luckiesh