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as in incapacitated
to cause severe or permanent injury to
the car crash may have crippled two people for life
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as in damaged
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
the collision so severely crippled the ship that it had to be towed into port
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as in paralyzed
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
a wave of strikes crippled that nation's steel industry
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Adjective
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But as people age, disabled hearing becomes more common.Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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This bipartisan legislation aims to provide improved access to non-opioid treatments for pain management for seniors and disabled folks.Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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When the technology is limited to medical applications, such as Chang’s device that helps paralyzed people regain the ability to communicate, those applications are covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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My left leg is, uh, partially paralyzed from my hip to my knee, then from my knee to my toes, completely paralyzed, so if there's any neurosurgeons out there … any researchers out there, please get a hold of me.Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2024
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Losing Moss for an extended period of time will hurt the Bengals' running game.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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What To Watch For Whether scandals surrounding GOP gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, could hurt Trump’s chances in North Carolina.Sara Dorn, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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In this horror/thriller, a woman alone in the forests of Big Sur must escape a serial killer with just 20 minutes left before her body completely shuts down due to a paralytic drug.Lisa Respers France, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
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Popular on Variety In conversations Variety had with multiple top sales agencies, a common silver lining emerged: in-house production is down across the board at the legacy studios and streamers, mostly thanks to the paralytic effect of the 2023 actor-and-writer strikes.Matt Donnelly, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
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“Crippled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crippled. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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