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Recent Examples of invalidism
Since the 1970s, feminist scholars have been actively documenting the ways menstruation has been used to ground false arguments about women’s weakness, invalidism, and inferiority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
Dorothy discovered the upside of invalidism in late middle age—
—Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 15 Aug. 2017
Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2021
Dorothy discovered the upside of invalidism in late middle age—
—Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 15 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidism
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His trajectory is one of softening, from the swaggering knight of the opening to the irrepressible lover of the second act to his final physical debility.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2026
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In Will There Ever Be Another You, the main character struggles with an illness similar to long COVID, descending into a state of debility and psychosis as readers experience the chaos of her unraveling life.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
26 Sep. 2025
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Miscellaneous The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules or the Affidavit will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
22 Jan. 2025
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This latest result has nothing to say about parallel universes, the multiverse, or the validity or invalidity of any of the still-viable interpretations of quantum mechanics.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Dec. 2024
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The proposal would burden doctors with giving parents a highly detailed consent statement to be prepared by boards of medicine and osteopathic medicine, and forbid health authorities to order vaccinations during outbreaks of familiar or new deadly diseases.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
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Overall, about half of children with the disease are infected during birth, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said, while others caught it from family members.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
29 Apr. 2026
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Similarly, ‘Barton Springs,’ a meditation on beautiful youth doomed to mortal decrepitude, feels somehow too personal to make the visceral leap into a reader’s recognition.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Mar. 2026
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The kills here are as elaborate as in the first outing and the depictions of moral decrepitude are so on target at times you all but want to stand up and cheer when the evildoers get served their comeuppance.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2026
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As Kasubhai observed, despite its legal feebleness, Kennedy’s declaration and its explicit threat has had a concrete impact on the provision of gender-affirming services to American youths.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Signs of disease include warts on legs, crusty or swollen eyes, feebleness, a ruffled appearance, difficulty breathing, nasal discharge, and diarrhea.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
5 Mar. 2026
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Colette, Mark Twain, and William Wordsworth all wrote habitually from bed, for reasons having to do with infirmity, comfort, and warding off distraction; Frida Kahlo painted self-portraits from bed, including the dreams that transcended her physical confinement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said protecting elderly people from predators who take advantage of their mental or physical infirmities is a priority of her office.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
16 Apr. 2026
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Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
8 Oct. 2025
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Survivors may look thin and suffer from lameness until their condition improves.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Oct. 2025
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One of the oddest maladies of our current TV era has been a desensitization to Nicole Kidman.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Apr. 2026
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DeGrom a two-time Cy Young Award winner, also has had surgery on his ulnar nerve in his elbow and missed time due to forearm tightness, among other maladies.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Invalidism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invalidism. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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