How to Use incapacity in a Sentence

incapacity

noun
  • I'm aware of my weaknesses and incapacities.
  • Google’s incapacity to shut down leaks has been on full display in recent days.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Who wants to talk about their own death, incapacity, even retirement?
    — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2022
  • No always means no, incapacity means no by default, and there are no exceptions.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
  • But is incapacity a good enough reason to take over Libya’s case against al-Islam?
    — Timothy William Waters, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2013
  • Society tells those who’ve been dealt a bad hand, who’ve never caught a break, that their failure must come from a lack of grit, an incapacity to dream big.
    — Scott Galloway, Time, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Whether for the two brothers or the mother, the movie is infused with this incapacity to express emotions and talk to each other.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Among the biggest problems in the Muslim world, in the Arab world, is the incapacity to face the problem.
    — James McAuley, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2018
  • An attorney who worked on the case was struck by the number of judicial decisions that were made without any finding of incapacity.
    — Jc Hallman, Oklahoma Watch, 22 Mar. 2026
  • By rights, the pilot should have ended with Logan’s death or permanent incapacity.
    — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Evergrande has very similar problems with the slowing of the housing market and its incapacity to make the payments on its bonds.
    — Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • What happens when the public sector ceases to play its leading role, whether because of incapacity or confusion?
    — Norman Anderson, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • Estate planning involves making a plan for the transfer of your property upon your death or incapacity.
    — Kara Stevens, Essence, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The judge revoked the temporary guardianship; no finding of incapacity was entered.
    — Jc Hallman, Oklahoma Watch, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The problem, in other words, is not fiscal incapacity but political choice.
    — James Sample, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • An estate planning attorney guides in choosing the best options for maintaining your estate after death or in the event of incapacity.
    — Kara Stevens, Essence, 29 Jan. 2020
  • These benefits ensure that the financial burden of incapacity won’t derail all your other plans for your estate.
    — Joseph Milano, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The authors note that the PA’s vast corruption contributes to its incapacity.
    — Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Congress members from three parties signed a motion Friday to remove the center-right president on the grounds of moral incapacity.
    — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2017
  • But the requirement to get a doctor to verify incapacity is, unfortunately, the way most trusts are drafted.
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • But she eventually was removed on moral incapacity grounds, with lawmakers citing the high crime rate and corruption scandals.
    — Franklin Briceño, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • So reliance on your will from a prior state of residence should only be done if there is absolutely no way to execute a new will in the new state, due to incapacity or emergency.
    — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Once upon a time, Alito’s claims of systemic danger and state incapacity would have been dismissed as the rantings of a mountain survivalist.
    — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022
  • In more routine ways, the political system feeds frustration and discontent with its incapacity to respond to the public’s needs.
    — Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In the case of monarchical incapacity, deposition was seldom resorted to because a general belief in the divine right of kings got in the way.
    — chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2017
  • Only adult citizens would count, including those who, in some states, are not eligible to vote because of a felony conviction or their mental incapacity.
    — Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The incapacity of the political system to ponder the problem of his power, let alone check it, guarantees his Long Now.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
  • In short, Paul is a pathetic character whose early behavior speaks volumes about both his ambitions and his incapacity to follow through on them.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Butcher, who saw Spears at her most erratic, noted that an argument for her incapacity would be easy to make about anyone in Spears’s circumstances.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 3 July 2021
  • The speeches lure inmates with high salaries, financial bonuses, death and incapacity payouts and, perhaps most important for some, freedom after six months of service.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg Helene Cooper Julia Jacobs Ivan Nechepurenko Stephen Castle Ivan Nechepurenko Steven Erlanger Ivan Nechepurenko Eric Schmitt Carlotta Gall Max Fisher, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023

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