cripple
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Higher mortgage rates could cripple an already weak housing market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of trying to "cripple the economy and destroy people's lives" with intensifying strikes on civilian infrastructure, including the railways.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
The U.S. launched what it described as an unprecedented campaign to cripple Iran’s economy by cutting off “every remaining lifeline” sustaining the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
A business fears proposals to charge Cardiff employers thousands of pounds for staff parking could "cripple" employers in the city.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The main building, which stood in a cluster of pines on high ground, seemed to lean heavily to one side, like a cripple, the roof sagging toward Canada.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
But it also cripples his sanity since the fire creates more vengeful spirits that only he can see.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025
No sooner has this block of exposition concluded than a cyberattack cripples every system in the U.S.A., including all the ones that had been thought invulnerable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
Shoaib Awan, from the group, says the crime is a nationwide "plague that cripples businesses - the loss of work, the loss of earnings".
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
The main action begins with a bang, as an unidentified bit of debris cripples the space station during an experiment that seeks “a new state of matter.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
Stanton said that she was pleased that she didn’t know Phillips’s opinion before she made her remarks because “the desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
In the U.S., diesel prices have vaulted to new records in the wake of the missile strikes that have crippled fuel-making facilities in the Middle East and Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Their emails start out, ‘You’re my last hope of not being a crippled, miserable, dead person,’ ” he said.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“We were promised Black jobs, Black dollars and an economic boost to Crenshaw, but businesses have been crippled one by one,” Shorter said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
It crippled education as thousands of teachers left their roles, and students like Ma Naw Phaw refused to enrol in junta-controlled schools.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Caesar cradles his crippled hand against his chest.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Boucher said she had had to take out personal loans to cover the costs, which had been "crippling".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The sickness spread to Detroit before reaching Buffalo and Rochester in upstate New York, crippling local economies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
But his PTI party made little headway improving Pakistan's finances, with galloping inflation, crippling debt and a feeble rupee undermining economic reform.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
By 2015, however, crippling anxiety and loss of control left him so overwhelmed that he carried a water bottle everywhere, terrified that he might choke on his own saliva.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Great people, my parents, but prone to bouts of crippling sentimentality.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
