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Recent Examples of debility The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century. Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024 According to this view, the outside world has been generous to Africa, providing substantial aid in recent decades, leaving no excuse for the continent’s debility. Howard W. French, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015 President Biden’s troubles — lingering inflation, wars and rumors of wars, his debility — could have benefited any Republican. David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024 As with fibroids, hormonal treatments and surgical options can help, though scarring and changes in the nervous system’s threshold for perceiving pain (eventually creating the experience of pain even in the absence of a stimulus) can create long-term debilities. Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024 In Amy Schumer’s comedy special Emergency Contact, the comedian talks about developing hyperemesis gravidarum, a potentially life-threatening condition that causes extreme, persistent nausea and vomiting and might lead to malnutrition, dehydration, and debility. Brianna Holt, Vogue, 7 July 2023 Given their ages and debilities, these soldiers had been deemed unfit for active service. David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023 As the wealth of nations increases and exposure to toxins and infectious agents drops, aging will become the cause of most disease, debility, and death. George Church, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2012 The Covid-19 pandemic has driven widespread debility, whether a result of distress or the virus itself, compounded in either case by political abandonment and public health failures. Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
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Noun
  • The biggest risks to the expansion are high inflation and global economic weakness, with a tie for third between the incoming administration’s fiscal policies and the size of the U.S. deficit.
    Steve Liesman, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Fatigue Fatigue and weakness are common signs of abnormally high blood sodium levels, known as hypernatremia.
    James Myhre & Dennis Sifris, MD, Verywell Health, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The probe comes after a 114-page report, released earlier this year by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), found that exhaustion, burnout and an overall lack of sleep for controllers — particularly during evening shifts — has hindered safety and led to accidents.
    The Hill Staff, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Negotiations are just another tool to improve one’s political position; the objective, as with military operations, remains the enemy’s subjugation, or at least its exhaustion.
    Niall Ferguson, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The intensity being so high is also another problem, with fatigue and injuries eventually catching up to the players.
    Thom Harris, The Athletic, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Weakness, fatigue and lightheadedness are among the most noticeable symptoms associated with iron deficiency, says Nance.
    Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024

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“Debility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debility. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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