cripple
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Brad Cooper prepared an option for 10 to 14 days of intensive airstrikes designed to cripple Iran’s missile capability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
A steep drop in the first few years of retirement, while you’re pulling money out to live on, can permanently cripple a portfolio even after the market recovers.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
Abrupt, unwelcome occurrences scar our autonomy and cripple our illusion of independence; the question of what went wrong falls on our shoulders, another loop to languish inside.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
He’d become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
But taxi driver Wayne Parsons, who travels 200 miles a day, said even the cheaper prices remained too high and "it cripples you".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
This legacy often cripples their ability to transition into adulthood as a functioning member of society.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2023
Then there are the more than half-million patients like Santos, who has a malignancy of the blood or lymph nodes that cripples a vital line of defense against infection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
Whether any of the nephews shared Yezzan’s fondness for cripples, freaks, and grotesques was far less certain.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The Daily Mail carries an exclusive on "fictitious" child maintenance charges that have left some parents "financially crippled".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Mainland investors have been seeking to diversify their holdings in recent years as a debt crisis has crippled the Chinese property sector, long viewed as a safe bet to park assets, analysts told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
In exchange for nuclear curbs, to be discussed in the next 60 days, Iran hopes to unlock frozen assets, and potentially end sanctions that have crippled its economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Iranian officials said the 60-day talks would aim at lifting sanctions that have crippled Tehran’s economy by blocking purchases of its oil and barring most international banks from doing business with the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
And he had come, eventually, to love the crippled girl called Kira, who had never known her father, and whose mother had died suddenly and left her alone.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
The chief executives of heavy industries have denounced the policies, citing crippling energy and carbon costs as some of the reasons they have shut down factories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Fabares spent her final years taking care of her mother and advocating for more funding for research into the crippling disease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr also demanded the end of crippling sanctions, the release of frozen assets and compensation for wartime damage.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
"It's crippling them - I think it will force them out," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Also, if anyone out there ever wants to experience the ultimate in crippling guilt, I recommend that you try beating a bald, bloated five-year-old cancer patient at a board game.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
