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lame

adjective as in unable to walk properly; injured

adjective as in weak; inadequate

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But expectations for what the summit can achieve have been lowered by a Trump victory that makes Biden administration negotiators from one of the world's largest carbon emitters a lame duck in this process and unable to really promise much.

From BBC

"The US at this COP is not just a lame duck, it's a dead duck," said Prof Richard Klein of the Stockholm Environment Institute, an expert on climate change policy.

From BBC

While they may sound like a lame competitor to the Power Rangers, the Cyber Ninjas were actually a company hired by Arizona Republicans to conduct a “forensic audit” of the state’s ballots after standard recount practices were deemed to be insufficient, likely because those practices didn’t find any evidence of widespread fraud.

From Salon

Anyone who watched her town hall could see why Trump's lame insults aren't landing as he hopes they will.

From Salon

But others say those improvements were squandered after Cedillo became a lame duck and later got caught up in the City Hall scandal involving racist comments heard on a secretly captured audio recording.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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