impuissance

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Recent Examples of impuissance But all of that will be moot if Washington’s rushing attack is not significantly improved from the impuissance of last season. Ben Baskin, SI.com, 14 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impuissance
Noun
  • There have been encouraging signs in other games or even in consecutive games, only to have the Padres revert to being the offensive impatience and impotence.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • The surgery to remove the prostate is often done outpatient, and has low risk for incontinence and impotence, but can cause erectile dysfunction, which can be treated by medication.
    Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The result can feel like exhaustion, even when the change is welcome.
    Inga Bielińska, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Just three years ago, voters recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin, amid mounting exhaustion with progressive criminal justice policies.
    Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • During this phase, people with migraines often develop symptoms that are characteristic and recognizable, like dizziness, fatigue, difficulty focusing, sensitivity to light (photophobia) and sound (phonophobia), neck pain and stiffness before the onset of actual head pain, Pavlovic explains.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 14 July 2025
  • There is excitement and motivation, but also fatigue, irritability and unexpected stress.
    Inga Bielińska, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • As something of a companion piece to More, Jacques Deray’s summer thriller La Piscine is a far more dramatic and insidious tale of tropical desire, lassitude, and violence.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
  • The result of this lassitude is that cars still rule the streets.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Impuissance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impuissance. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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