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Recent Examples of impuissance
But all of that will be moot if Washington’s rushing attack is not significantly improved from the impuissance of last season.
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Ben Baskin, SI.com, 14 June 2018
Ben Baskin, SI.com, 14 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impuissance
Noun
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, those totems of Democratic impotence, entered together and acted as if they’d been instructed never to shoot each other so much as a passing glance.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Social media, though, offers an alternative to this impotence.—
Callum Booth,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This breeds feelings of frustration and emotional exhaustion.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
25 Jan. 2025
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However, exhaustion from the long-haul flight prompted him to explore an alternative: an Uber.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Investigators found that pilot fatigue during icing conditions contributed to the accident.—
Matt Leclercq,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Jan. 2025
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That number could be hard to match as KC fatigue builds, but Kansas City did just set the AFC title game viewership high mark at 57.4 million on Sunday.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
30 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But neither was there the ho-hum, dutiful lassitude that usually accompanies second inaugurations, like Barack Obama’s in 2013.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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But the opinion, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., went way further than necessary to insulate Trump from prosecution — not simply before the election, which the court, by its lassitude, had nearly guaranteed, but forever, even in the event that President Biden wins reelection.—
Ruth Marcus,
Washington Post,
1 July 2024
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“Impuissance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impuissance. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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