Example Sentences

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None of the disability rights leaders with whom Salon spoke denied that a stroke is impairing and often debilitating.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2022

Does the FBI also have undiagnosed anxiety that is impairing its daily functioning?

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2021

Increasingly, Covid survivors say brain fog is impairing their ability to work and function normally.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2020

Such discomfort is impairing our very ability to live to our very fullest — a right guaranteed in the Constitution!*

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2017

"By your favour," said Mr. Butler, "may I ask whether your erudition is impairing your bodily health, that you leave school so early in life, Master Cardigan?"

From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)