limitation

Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation, it felt like a limitation you could roll in.

Both the MI score and the t-score have their limitations. MI computes a logarithm representing the number of co-occurrences of words compared to their occurrences apart in the corpus, which can highlight rare collocations if the components tend not to occur with other words. The t-score formula is less susceptible to this but its numerical result cannot be meaningfully compared across corpora of different sizes.

The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the ten-year limitation.