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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

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

Even high prices aren’t usually enough alone to cripple a bull.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

With their superior numbers, the Germans could cripple the Allied armies once and for all.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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

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

This legacy often cripples their ability to transition into adulthood as a functioning member of society.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2023

So even in the most extreme drought, when we look back 100 years, there's nothing that cripples hydro in a serious way.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 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

“Their emails start out, ‘You’re my last hope of not being a crippled, miserable, dead person,’ ” he said.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Iran’s top politicians said the country needs to focus on ending the war and shoring up its crippled economy, pushing back publicly against hard-liners who are taking a more defiant approach in the six-month-old conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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

The Scots, crippled by a deadly combo of profligacy and self destruction, needed snookers.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

I couldn’t doctor a sick cat, much less a crippled leg.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Their crippling codependence is alienating, as if there really were only one of them.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 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

Newsom is also considering a closely watched package that would shield utilities from potentially crippling wildfire liability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Overcoming his own crippling exhaustion, he plunged into the maw of the hurricane and searched the Col for nearly an hour.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer