paraplegic
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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
The Me Before You series follows the life of Louisa Clark, a working-class girl who ends up as a carer for paraplegic Will Traynor, a wealthy man who is paralysed after a motorcycle accident.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
When I met her she was a paraplegic; eventually she became a quadriplegic.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024
So, taking a cue from Mark Wellman, the first paraplegic to climb El Capitan in 1989, they rigged climbing ropes with a specially designed pulley system.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 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
Vocabulary lists containing paraplegic
This Week in Pop Culture: January 12 -18, 2019
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