Example Sentences

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But if you choose the wrong one to remove, the patient will still have seizures, and now may have impaired memory as well.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

This, he said, would have "impaired this engagement between minister and parishioner – an engagement built on trust".

From BBC • May 25, 2024

If successful, the researchers hope their strategy could benefit people who have experienced strokes, limb amputation, and spinal cord injuries, as well as others who have impaired ability to control their limbs.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

In 2021, another beloved Central Park owl, Barry, was fatally struck by a truck after ingesting a lethal dose of rat poison that may have impaired her flying.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Such a drop in carbon dioxide may have impaired the “greenhouse” property of the atmosphere, which holds in the solar heat otherwise lost by radiation from the earth’s surface.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas