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palsy

[pawl-zee] / ˈpɔl zi /




NOUN
cerebral palsy
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Schrager, who has cerebral palsy, said the impact on her mental health has been "significant and at times overwhelming" - but vowed she would return to action in 2027.

From BBC Jul. 24, 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

Mr Hayayei, who had cerebral palsy, died at the scene.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2026

My brother, who has cerebral palsy and is developmentally disabled, is two years older than I am.

From MarketWatch Mar. 10, 2026

Mr. Bykovski’s daughter, Esther, had been in my class until she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and had to go away to a special school.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

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

Many of the hysterical palsies are really due to dreads, consequent upon some incident, motor or sensory, which produced a profound effect upon the patient's mind.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

They have sometimes been spoken of as hysterical palsies or paralyses.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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

Five years on from the Wall Street crash, the world economy is still palsied.

From The Guardian Jan. 22, 2013

He would tease her by telling her just how, with her and her apples gone, all the gods were frail and withered—drooling, palsied, quivering hulks, slow of thought and crippled in mind and body.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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

But to such a one uncertainty is like a shock to the body, palsying the form and changing a strong arm into a nerveless, useless stick of bone and tissue.

From The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Rees, Byron J. (Byron Johnson)

The bold, the prompt, and the energetic saved themselves by immediate flight; those who lingered through love or avarice, supine indifference, or palsying fear, perished.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard

Una, bringing home the palsying weariness of the day’s drudgery, would find a cheery welcome—and the work not done; no vegetables for dinner, no fresh boric-acid solution prepared for washing her stinging eyes.

From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair

The toil that outstays nature hath A palsying power, a chilling force Which freezes youth at its fresh source.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir




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