brain-damaged
Americanadjective
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She survived and was returned to England; Sydney cared for her brain-damaged daughter until Unity’s death in 1948.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Would she say she’s brain-damaged because of phones?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
In the 2017 BBC documentary Dementia, Football and Me,Nicholl told Alan Shearer, who played under him at Southampton, he was "brain-damaged from heading balls".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024
“A Personal Matter,” published a year later, is the story of a father coming to terms through darkness and pain with the birth of a brain-damaged son.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
There was a moment’s pause as my tablemates stared at me, not mute, not brain-damaged, able to recall the name of an opera.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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