paralyze

The Lewiatan Confederation, an NGO representing Polish entrepreneurs, argues the move "could paralyze the labour market".

From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026

Nexperia microchips are leaving China again, easing a shortage of simple but ubiquitous parts that threatened to paralyze the auto industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Good team, great fans, best ballpark in Southern California – but is an ownership dispute going to paralyze the franchise?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025

It can feel exhausting to think about what can happen in the next four years, and it’s important that we take a minute to acknowledge these emotions, but we cannot let them paralyze us.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2024

They floated around the ocean like fluffy pillows, trailing enough venom to paralyze a swimmer.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Meanwhile, Salieri’s invisible seething paralyzes him, turning into the punishment he believes God inflicted on him.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

"The amyloid beta affects muscles and paralyzes the worms," says Sidharth Madhavan, a PhD candidate and lead author on the study.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024

The fix here is pretty simple: return to the ophthalmologist’s chair for a “cycloplegic refraction,” which temporarily paralyzes those inner eye muscles so you can get an accurate prescription.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2023

Meanwhile, your brain paralyzes the muscles in your arms and legs, preventing you from acting out your dreams, Dasgupta explained.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

I’m not sure what it is, but it paralyzes me.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

A. The evidence that stood out the most was something I didn’t experience myself: the call Clancy’s then-husband, Patrick, made to 911 when he returned home to find his wife paralyzed in the yard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

She then jumped out of a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down and using a wheelchair.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

A stroke in 2012 left him partially paralyzed, interrupting a busy acting career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

She was also battling back from a severe lower back injury that left her almost paralyzed last year.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

The thought of facing fourth grade alone just makes me paralyzed or something.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins

This fork in the road looms but so, let’s admit, does the possibility of society becoming tangled up in legally paralyzing questions of machine sentience, pushed by certain avid humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

FARGO, N.D.—Oak Reile was delivering a pallet of washer fluid, cigarettes and candy to a local convenience store in 2020 when he slipped and fell, breaking two vertebrae and paralyzing him from the armpits down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Paz is facing paralyzing country-wide protests and calls for his resignation.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

Millions of Americans were facing dangerously cold temperatures Monday in the wake of a massive winter storm that whipped snow and ice across the country, knocking out power and paralyzing transportation.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Instead of succumbing to paralyzing fear, like any normal person would in a storm like this, she’d been able to figure out the pattern to Nicole’s swimming.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith