Example Sentences

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“Achieving Victory’s $500 million synergy target will require extensive cuts that will impair the Company’s ability to retain investment professionals and maintain Janus Henderson’s high standards of client service,” Janus says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Are the challenges the sign of a disability that will impair a student’s learning long term, or something more temporary?

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2022

McFall will follow a different path than his fellow astronauts because he will participate in a groundbreaking feasibility study exploring whether physical disability will impair space travel.

From Washington Times • Nov. 23, 2022

“We are prepared to win a runoff in August and don’t believe that in any way that will impair the prospects for a victory in November,” he said.

From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2020

This amounts to ignorance, and will impair the world's respect for him.

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 by Twain, Mark