powerless

Example Sentences

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The despair and hopelessness are a response to feeling powerless in the face of injustice and watching long-standing norms be routinely broken.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

"I just didn't know what to do about it. I felt powerless."

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Within seconds, the vehicle was halted off the 60 Freeway exit at Country Village Road, and the suspect was left as powerless as a rodeo calf on its side.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Nursing-home esidents, in many or most cases, are completely powerless and often isolated.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

Taran cried with all the more anger at feeling himself powerless.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander