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palsy

[pawl-zee] / ˈpɔl zi /




NOUN
cerebral 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

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

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

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?

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by George Sumner Weaver


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