weakliness

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Noun
  • The proposal would burden doctors with giving parents a highly detailed consent statement to be prepared by boards of medicine and osteopathic medicine, and forbid health authorities to order vaccinations during outbreaks of familiar or new deadly diseases.
    Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Overall, about half of children with the disease are infected during birth, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said, while others caught it from family members.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Miscellaneous The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules or the Affidavit will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.
    USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • This latest result has nothing to say about parallel universes, the multiverse, or the validity or invalidity of any of the still-viable interpretations of quantum mechanics.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Since the 1970s, feminist scholars have been actively documenting the ways menstruation has been used to ground false arguments about women’s weakness, invalidism, and inferiority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
    Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • 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.
    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
Noun
  • As Kasubhai observed, despite its legal feebleness, Kennedy’s declaration and its explicit threat has had a concrete impact on the provision of gender-affirming services to American youths.
    Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Orleans Parish jail system had been plagued by violence, corruption and dysfunction for decades and was placed under federal oversight in 2013.
    CBS News, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The overdoses can cause a range of harmful effects on the body, Felton said, including a high heart rate or arrhythmia and urinary retention that can cause renal or kidney dysfunction.
    Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Some analysts have raised alarms about how weakness in a key node of the web, like OpenAI, could set off a chain reaction that could threaten the entire AI ecosystem.
    Rob Wile, NBC news, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Prior to his senior year, Maloney worked extremely hard to correct his weakness.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Weakliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weakliness. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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