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a condition that interferes with someone's ability to engage in certain tasks
The group provides one-on-one mentorship to students with various disabilities. The disability caused by the car crash prevented him from working.
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According to her campaign website, her priorities include protecting parks, transit services, aging and disability services and veterans programs, as well as pursuing criminal justice and juvenile correction reform.
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Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 6 Jan. 2026
Weiss also holds board positions on YACHAD, a Jewish disability nonprofit, and the Community Relations Committee at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026
And don’t miss other 2026 previews on disability, policy, public health, vaccines, drugs, and the FDA.
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Writer and disability rights advocate Alice Wong died on November 14 at the age of 51.
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Or perhaps the kill shot actually came in Week 1, when Brock Purdy picked up a nagging turf-toe injury that refused to properly heal for 10 weeks.—
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At tackle, Ben Taylor-Whitfield returns at right tackle, but who will man the left side with Ryan Hughes recovering from a season-ending injury?—
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These can cause severe scarring or disablement and may lead to amputations.—
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Playing Arnie, the younger brother to Gilbert (Johnny Depp), DiCaprio doesn’t permit his character to be a simple, adorable variation on disablement.—
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During that period, sociologists viewed illness mostly as a deviation from normal functioning leading to impairments that require treatment.—
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Defense attorney Dmitry Gorin, a former LA County prosecutor, said claiming insanity or mental impairment presents a major challenge for any defense team.—
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By March 2024, the state had already spent $3 million reimbursing ranchers for damages caused by wolves throughout the northern part of the state, as well as the cost of investing in nonlethal deterrents to keep them away, such as fencing, flags and other methods.—
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Israeli attacks weakened Iran’s regional armed proxy groups such as Hamas and Hezbollahwhile US strikes dealt significant damage to the country’s nuclear program, which the government spent billions to develop.—
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“Disability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disability. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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