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  • noun Plural form of debility.

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Examples

  • For these octuplets, I also hope they all live and don't end up with life-limiting debilities from their ordeal.

    Baby Boom 2009

  • Let me first state that if we can pull this off -- cure death -- it's self-evident that we'll also obliterate the debilities of aging.

    Seth Shostak: Living Forever Is Not a Good Idea Seth Shostak 2010

  • The declining standards were brought home to Prince Higashikuni of the General Defense Command in late 1944 when, visiting an antiaircraft site, he found that gun crews included men with physical debilities and even one eye.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • Nowhere were the debilities of the Congress so glaring as at the Board of Treasury.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Lack of agreement on arms issues would be the worst-case scenario for Russia, said Irina Kobrinskaya, a political analyst with the Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences, pointing out that Medvedev devoted the bulk of his speech to plans for overcoming domestic debilities.

    Russian president Medvedev sees new arms race if cooperation fails Kathy Lally 2010

  • Let me first state that if we can pull this off -- cure death -- it's self-evident that we'll also obliterate the debilities of aging.

    Seth Shostak: Living Forever Is Not a Good Idea Seth Shostak 2010

  • And of course, millions of people in their 60s -- or in some cases, even younger -- are beginning to suffer the debilities of Alzheimer's Disease (AD), which can make even office work impossible.

    James Pinkerton: The Lowest Common Denominator of Politics -- and the Highest Common Denominator of Health 2010

  • Let me first state that if we can pull this off -- cure death -- it's self-evident that we'll also obliterate the debilities of aging.

    Seth Shostak: Living Forever Is Not a Good Idea Seth Shostak 2010

  • The declining standards were brought home to Prince Higashikuni of the General Defense Command in late 1944 when, visiting an antiaircraft site, he found that gun crews included men with physical debilities and even one eye.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • Lack of agreement on arms issues would be the worst-case scenario for Russia, said Irina Kobrinskaya, a political analyst with the Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences, pointing out that Medvedev devoted the bulk of his speech to plans for overcoming domestic debilities.

    Russian president Medvedev sees new arms race if cooperation fails Kathy Lally 2010

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