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incontinent

[in-kon-tn-uhnt] / ɪnˈkɒn tn ənt /


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The cast’s choices are like weather-balloon data that presage the disaster of the movie’s climax, when everyone behaves like an emotionally incontinent millennial.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

He fell into a coma, became incontinent and quadriplegic.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

"I was getting incontinent, so I needed to go to the toilet a lot, like every like five minutes, sometimes even like less than that," Wesley said.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

After he teed off in 2003 on the Fox teenage drama “The O.C.” as a “moody, moon-faced trifle,” the show fired back with a hospital scene featuring a patient named Tom Shales, who is incontinent.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2024

When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long- drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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