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The ruling was that Duchene, whose skates were outside the crease while jostling with defenseman Cale Makar, had impaired goalie Alexandar Georgiev’s ability to try to make a play.

From Seattle Times • May 18, 2024

"We found the most pronounced change occurred in people who had impaired memory."

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

Kiegan had an unsafe swallow, was profoundly deaf, had impaired vision and dystonic cerebral palsy.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2023

Her rheumatologist suspected that the weight loss surgery had impaired her ability to absorb methotrexate and switched her to an injectable form of the drug.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2022

Each transformation had impaired some portion of its framework, broken down some of its traditions, and sowed new seeds of egotism in citizens who saw all things round them change but self-advantage.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes