disable
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Anthropic’s Fable model was brought under export control by the government, forcing the company to disable access to all its users, before it was re-released with extra safeguards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
In recent years, the U.S. and Turkey have also discussed the possibility of delivering the S-400 to American military personnel who could disable the system’s ability to threaten U.S. aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Anthropic was temporarily forced to disable access to its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, last month after the U.S. government flagged them as a security threat.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
It added that the ministry had also directed the app to disable in India the message-editing feature till 30 June, saying that the feature had been used to "fabricate" evidence of paper leaks.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Opening the case was easy for Le Fantôme, just as it had been simple to disable its hidden tracking mechanism.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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The virus that sparked a global pandemic still regularly infects, disables and kills hundreds of people per week.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Some regularly put their cars in sport mode, which in some models disables the engine from shutting off when the car is idle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
A "dark" vessel -- usually a tanker or cargo carrier -- deliberately disables or manipulates transponders in a bid to go undetected by public tracking systems like Kpler's MarineTraffic.
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026
"Lack of support, lack of accessibility, that is what disables you."
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
Hemophilia is caused by a single mutation that disables a protein in the clotting of blood.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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We are here because one spring day in May, Joshua Fox, a 31-year-old Black disabled veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder and a checkered past, stood up and stress-tested Eatherly’s business model.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said it was "simply not right that many disabled people cannot travel using their pass during certain times of the day".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The alleged shooter's Facebook account has since been disabled.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Medicaid cannot recover certain assets from a deceased beneficiary’s estate if the beneficiary is survived by a child under 21, or a blind or disabled child of any age.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Sosie had only heard about every third word, but she understood completely that Mrs. Brewer thought she could pair disabled kids like socks.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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“When people have access to medical care through insurance, they tend to undertake activities that can help longevity, like better preventive care, better management of chronic and disabling conditions,” Cohen said.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Now, after disabling about 30 of the devices near his home in the Minneapolis area, he told AFP: "I'm not really as scared anymore."
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Instagram, which is owned by Meta, has been disabling accounts and taking down some of these pickup or prank videos for violating the platform’s rules against harassment and bullying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
"The problem is the industry has a very poor reputation of disabling games once they end support," said Scott Ross, co-founder of consumer rights group Stop Killing Games, following Rockstar's announcement.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Terryl remembers that Danny, to make sure church wasn’t an option, would sometimes take the distributor cap off of Kathie’s long, chocolate brown Cadillac, disabling the aging sedan.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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