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How to use the word debilitating in a Sentence?

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He won't be the senator with the most debilitating problems, mental issues, cognitive issues currently or in the time that I've been in the Senate, i'm not saying that's a good thing… but he won't be the first.

The Democratic aide

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You can't overstate how debilitating $ 5 a gallon is, economists are always confused by how outsized a role gas prices play in people's economic thinking. It's because it's in their face all day long.

George Loewenstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am a COVID survivor, i got it severely and I was hospitalized for 11 days — and four or five of those I do not even remember. It really was touch and go and a terribly debilitating ailment.

Smokey Robinson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I got it severely and I was hospitalized for 11 days — and four or five of those I do not even remember. It really was touch and go and a terribly debilitating ailment.

The Grammy winner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We need clarification on the percentage of children who have debilitating effects from Covid, especially neurological effects in the developing brain, we need the pediatric neurological societies to really look into this more in depth. ... We tend to use very blunt instruments when talking about either adolescents' or children's deaths, and only hospitalizations. There are so many more dimensions to Covid than that.

Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's pretty debilitating when we have to close for a couple days like this.

Kyle Rensmeyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Most of the patients had normal or nondiagnostic lab and imaging results, despite having debilitating symptoms. That's among the challenges of diagnosing PCS [post-COVID-19 syndrome] in a timely way and then responding effectively.

Greg Vanichkachorn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was joking that you could offer to let the tourists cut the long lobster roll lines in Maine in the summer if they got vaccinated, i think if we take that kind of attitude and get enough vaccines to people, we actually could get to the right level to make this severe disease that has been completely debilitating from a societal and economic perspective, to something that is not eradicated, but that is something more akin to the common cold, which becomes more manageable.

Samuel Scarpino

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I ’d like to express how little faith I have in this board to do the right thing today or in the months to come, i genuinely hope that I’ve effectively insulted at least a few of you right now, because that insignificant and fleeting feeling that you’re experiencing in this particular moment is absolutely nothing in comparison to the persistent and often debilitating fear that survivors at LSU suffer on a daily basis as a direct result of your deliberate indifference to abuse on this campus.

Caroline Schroeder

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Because it's been so debilitating to be at the center of so many attacks from this administration, we value the importance of bringing joy to the work that we're doing.

Cristina Jimenez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The delegation of addressing the pandemic to the states, and what can fairly be described as the abdication of any responsibility for the pandemic on the part of the federal government, have contributed to a debilitating sense of policy uncertainty that is dampening economic activity.

Joseph Brusuelas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

OCD can be an extremely debilitating condition for many people, but the treatments are not always straightforward.

Baland Jalal

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is a very sad day for a doctor who spent his entire career caring for people suffering with terrible and debilitating pain.

Samuel Braverman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We must also end the needless and unjust criminal convictions and the debilitating criminal stigma.

Andrew Cuomo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We must also end the needless and unjust criminal convictions and the debilitating criminal stigma and let's legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana once and for all.

New York

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Individual therapy can be helpful as well, many people have a hard time opening up in groups and do better with individual counseling. If therapy triggers other losses or traumas, these losses might also have to be looked at. Grief that is really debilitating or lasts exceptionally long might be complicated by the association of the loss to other losses and trauma. Individual therapy might be really important to understand this connection and to work it through.

Lisa Frankel

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When we hear the fight of any kid facing a challenge of a debilitating disease, we step forward, you have to take care of the future and show parents that are going through this that they're not alone.

Boston Police Superintendent-in-Chief William Gross

Found on CNN
7 years ago

[They] are usually doing great academically, in terms of sports, psychologically, in terms of friends, socially and then when something like [an injury] happens, it becomes very debilitating and…affects their whole lives.

Katherine Bentley

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

In the case of contagious illness, the spread of the illness to co-workers and customers or clients is an obvious concern, on the other hand, if illness is neither contagious nor debilitating, it might be self-affirming for people to go to work when not perfectly fit.

Gary Johns

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Australian government is incredibly sympathetic to the suffering of those Australians with debilitating illnesses and we want to enable access to the most effective medical treatments available.

Health Minister Sussan Ley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This government is incredibly sympathetic to the suffering of those Australians with debilitating illnesses and we want to enable access to the most effective medical treatments available.

Health Minister Sussan Ley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Developmental dyspraxia impacts additional motor skills such as ocular, short-term memory issues, judgment, processing and function delays, sensory concerns and language, with the condition comes many (other) disorders, which can be more debilitating as dyspraxia impacts neuron development.

Warren Fried

Found on CNN
8 years ago

So many of these neglected tropical diseases are not acute infections like ... the flu or common cold, many are chronic, debilitating conditions that mimic non-communicable diseases ... If somebody has epilepsy, they don't think of cysticercosis ... If a child tests poorly in school, the pediatrician or nurse practitioner won't think of toxocariasis.

Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I can try to live my life the way I was and make an effort to do that even though I don't have an arm or I can kind of just let this be completely debilitating and bring my life down and ruin it.

Hunter Treschl

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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