palsy
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Mitte, who had cerebral palsy, drew on his own experience for his role in the Emmy-winning drama series.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
One, who has cerebral palsy, took five months to complete the exam.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Mitte, who, like his character Walter “Flynn” White Jr., had cerebral palsy, played an integral supporting role on the AMC series, which premiered in 2008 and lasted five seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
He said his son has cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder, and relies on assistance to live with dignity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
“It takes time to accept the limitations of a beloved child. She has cerebral palsy, Mrs. Brooks.”
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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That fall, a friend told the patient about a clinic at New York University that specialized in facial palsies.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
Hiroshimans feel that The Bomb purged them of all war guilt; perhaps that is why Hiroshima is free of the paralysis that palsies most of the rest of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Among the many symptoms associated with overexposure are blindness, insomnia, kidney failure, hearing loss, cancer, palsies, and convulsions.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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The blasting sight converts me into stone; Withers my powers like cowardice or age, Curdles the blood within my shiv'ring veins, And palsies my bold arm.
From Percy A Tragedy by Hannah More
Neurotic palsies, to use a term that carries much less unfavorable suggestion with it than the word paralysis or the word hysterical, may occur in any limb or group of muscles.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
He struggled with palsied hands to shield his exposed body with a thin towel.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2021
In front of a billion or so viewers, Witz was palsied with pleasure.
From Time ● Mar. 3, 2014
On the spot, they decide to liberate Claude from the company of the palsied, demented, and wheelchair bound.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2013
Clutching its credit card in hands palsied with anticipation, Lost in Showbiz catches its breath long enough to advise: don't all subscribe at once, you'll crash their server!
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2011
The old woman, shrunk by age and time to little bigger than a child, held on to a stick as tall and bent as herself with palsied and swollen-knuckled hands.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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That’s never happened before—hunting is a favorite pastime—and he sees the change in himself as just one more sign of the times’ palsying effect on the simplicity of the old ways.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
Why should every nerve quiver as she sat there mute with a palsying fear?
From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood
Doubtless many a one has at times felt the stupendous truths of astronomy thus palsying him with a crushing sense of his own nothingness and burying him in fatalistic despair.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
Have we now escaped the inert and self-absorbed deity of Lucretius, only to fall into the palsying grasp of the tyrannous deity of Calvin?
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick
What is there in our highly civilized life that escapes the palsying touch of Fashion?
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