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A correspondence that spans years might have its intermittent sputters, but it finally ends for a reason, and often — as with nearly all of the pairs mentioned here — that reason is someone’s death or debility.

Over and over, she finds language sufficient for her intense debility.

Rereading recently the Snopes and Studs Lonigan trilogies, I was struck by their insight into the emotional debility and ruthlessness of socially mobile men.

Underlying the GOP’s debilities, of course, is its small voter registration that has plunged over the years.

This season, the writers on “Succession” have been playing up the age-related debility and mental fogginess of their crotchety corporate monarch.