crippling
Example Sentences
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Their crippling codependence is alienating, as if there really were only one of them.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government placed the troubled plant under state administration in February 2024 to try to protect jobs in a region with crippling unemployment and has been seeking a buyer.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
Despite these crippling difficulties, the biologists assembled facts that collectively paint a picture of almost unparalleled wildlife destruction — destruction that became obvious as soon as the program got under way.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
