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unability

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Unability (noun) means the lack of the ability to do something.

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The lack of the ability to do something.

"Failures were related to the unability to selectively place the guiding catheter at the coronary ostium in 2 cases and to the unability to cross the lesion in 8 cases." — Johan H. C. Reiber, P.W. Serruys (2012)

"The main factors that determine the location of the boundaries for the region of existence of a phase and thus its transition to another phase seem to be its ability or unability to incorporate water." — Julian F. Johnson, Roger S. Porter (2012)

"Equally ambivalent is the attempt to operationalize country risk by differentiating a sovereign debtor's "unability" and "unwillingness" to pay." — Walter Berger, Financial Innovations in International Debt Management (2012)

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