brain-damaged
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
A Scottish woman is calling for her brain-damaged nephew to be urgently moved from a mental health hospital in England which is at the centre of multiple police inquiries.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
Would she say she’s brain-damaged because of phones?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
“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
Most likely if you’d said futon to him, he’d have looked at you as if, he was deaf or you were brain-damaged.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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