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paraplegic

[par-uh-plee-jik, -plej-ik] / ˌpær əˈpli dʒɪk, -ˈplɛdʒ ɪk /


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Tabatha Hayden, a paraplegic, had given up on finding an accessible home that she, her husband and their five children could afford.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Peter Lau, 59, from Huddersfield, who is T6 paraplegic, said looking at images of the platform, it seemed "like a game show challenge where you put someone in a wire cage".

From BBC Apr. 12, 2025

Backstory: The bitter rivalry between screen legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford helped propel this film about an aging onetime child star who torments her sister, a paraplegic former actor.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2025

When I met her she was a paraplegic; eventually she became a quadriplegic.

From New York Times Jun. 19, 2024

He sat upright in his chair, not looking at Mrs. Olinski or the blackboard but staring into the middle distance, as if looking at the word paraplegic or the paraplegic herself was too painful.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

His work on paraplegics learning to walk again was featured at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival: New Frontier.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

Of those, 44 were marked as related to paraplegics, quadriplegics, other types of wheelchair users and other assistive-device users.

From Washington Post Sep. 12, 2022

Goydos remembers reading a story about a group of researchers who interviewed several lottery winners and several paraplegics and then going back to talk to the same people about their lives a year later.

From Golf Digest May 21, 2018

The possibility of using electrical current to stimulate muscle action in paralyzed limbs, perhaps allowing paraplegics to walk, is under study.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

Some paraplegics seem to live a fuller life than ever.

From A Matter of Proportion by Anne Walker




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