Example Sentences

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"Gynae issues and especially endometriosis is just not prioritised - it is debilitating and life changing but just not taken seriously by the health service."

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

Doing that while we are living in legal limbo, not knowing whether we can stay permanently or whether we might be asked to return, is debilitating.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2023

“It is debilitating to the city and it did affect some of us,” Eden said.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022

But true obsessive-compulsive disorder is debilitating and leads to significant suffering.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2022

Depend upon it, this mental gorging is debilitating and debauching alike to the moral and the intellectual constitution.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by Hart, John S. (John Seely)