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every able-bodied young man in the village had been sent off to fight in the war
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The fact is that 1 in 4 people in America have a disability, and the able-bodied majority can be allies — a critical component towards actively skewing perceptions on what disability in the movies can look like.
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Kristen Lopez, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
As with Leyva's great-grandmother, many were enslaved not as able-bodied adults but as children.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie said sentiment within the GOP conference was favorable to tightening eligibility requirements, conditioning work on able-bodied people and equalizing payments for the Medicaid expansion population.
—Peter Sullivan, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
The dictations began to coalesce into essays that combined tales of his former, able-bodied life with unvarnished assessments of his medical and mental conditions.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
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Kristen Lopez, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
As with Leyva's great-grandmother, many were enslaved not as able-bodied adults but as children.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie said sentiment within the GOP conference was favorable to tightening eligibility requirements, conditioning work on able-bodied people and equalizing payments for the Medicaid expansion population.
—Peter Sullivan, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
The dictations began to coalesce into essays that combined tales of his former, able-bodied life with unvarnished assessments of his medical and mental conditions.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Able-bodied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/able-bodied. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.
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