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Recent Examples of lameness
Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness.
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
Survivors may look thin and suffer from lameness until their condition improves.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Countless more suffer silently with every step from preexisting, untreated injuries and lameness.
—Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
Survivors may look thin and suffer from lameness until their condition improves.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
Countless more suffer silently with every step from preexisting, untreated injuries and lameness.
—Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lameness
Noun
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Because of his infirmities, he is housed in a medical unit of the jail, away from the general population.—
Maer Roshan,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Mar. 2026
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Those are the words Dr. James Parkinson used in an essay more than 200 years ago to group together symptoms and describe a mysterious infirmity afflicting six individuals in London.—
Andrea Kane,
CNN Money,
9 Dec. 2025
Noun
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His trajectory is one of softening, from the swaggering knight of the opening to the irrepressible lover of the second act to his final physical debility.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2026
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In Will There Ever Be Another You, the main character struggles with an illness similar to long COVID, descending into a state of debility and psychosis as readers experience the chaos of her unraveling life.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The problem is that people with disabilities and chronic conditions start with a lower QALY score by definition.—
James Hart,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2026
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Students with disabilities could fall through the cracks For many children, schools are the first point of contact with public services such as nutrition programs, healthcare, language learning and counseling.—
Jonaki Mehta,
NPR,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Signs of disease include warts on legs, crusty or swollen eyes, feebleness, a ruffled appearance, difficulty breathing, nasal discharge, and diarrhea.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
5 Mar. 2026
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When hair endures damage from styling treatments, color, or heat, the hair’s keratin composition can be compromised, leading to feebleness and a greater risk of breakage.—
Sophie Wirt,
InStyle,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Those citing such ominous scenarios envisioned other possible dangers, including the debilitation of America’s security guarantees to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf oil exporters.—
Paul Blustein,
Fortune,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Similarly, ‘Barton Springs,’ a meditation on beautiful youth doomed to mortal decrepitude, feels somehow too personal to make the visceral leap into a reader’s recognition.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Mar. 2026
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The kills here are as elaborate as in the first outing and the depictions of moral decrepitude are so on target at times you all but want to stand up and cheer when the evildoers get served their comeuppance.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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There are four guestrooms specifically designed for those with mobility, hearing, or visual impairments.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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Investigators noted that the driver showed no signs of impairment.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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If not treated early, the infection can progress to more serious symptoms, such as joint swelling and arthritis, nerve pain, tingling or numbness, facial muscle weakness, heart inflammation and difficulties with memory or concentration.—
Emily Bache,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2026
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To play for Hurley is to understand that taking a play off is not acceptable, that bending over and tugging at your short hems – a sure sign, in Hurley’s estimation, of weakness – will earn you either a death stare or a run up the steps.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Lameness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lameness. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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