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What the reforms would discourage is the strategic use of firings to immobilize the commissions themselves.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

A single freeze-up can knock out an entire weapons platform or immobilize a convoy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

Snake venom is a complex cocktail of toxins, amino acids and proteins that evolved primarily to immobilize and kill prey, but it also prepares tissues for digestion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

“Once they’ve captured their prey, they immobilize it with a very sticky mucus or slime.”

From National Geographic ● Aug. 4, 2023

“Enough snow. Don’t want to immobilize the city, do we?”

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

A stock market that supposedly facilitates capital flows thus immobilizes capital within companies.

From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026

Still today, the pit attracts and inadvertently immobilizes mammals, birds and insects like “flies on flypaper,” according to Bird Center’s statement on the incident.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

Fukuyama and a virus that immobilizes people into teeth-chattering zombies — are as haunting as the villainous Shadow King, played by Audrey Plaza, who at times also appears as a nightmarishly pale, obese figure.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2018

“Fish that encounter electricity go through a process called galvanotaxis that immobilizes the muscles, physically stopping the fish from moving through the barrier. The process can be lethal,” says Mark Cornish, a supervisory Corps biologist.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2017

The amebocytes of starfish were recently found to contain a material that immobilizes the macrophages of mammals, resembling a product of immune lymphocytes in higher forms.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Though Liniger continued to live with significant paralysis on her left side after the plane wreck, she learned to play golf with one arm immobilized in a sling and became an accomplished one-armed golfer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The injuries observed suggest that orcas may have developed a refined technique to trigger this immobilized state while reducing the risk of being bitten.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2025

Fine, immobilized by multiple sclerosis, didn’t know the names of the responders, but said she wanted to “shout-out” to all of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2025

I don't have the privilege of being immobilized, so since Wednesday morning I've been working on what I can do to help the situation in any way that I possibly can.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2024

Fadi felt like a hairy single-celled paramecium, immobilized under a microscope, squashed between two plates of glass.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

Trainers were immobilizing the leg before the cart even reached Lathan.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

Zelda Williams took to Twitter to share that the Oscar winner, who died at 63 in 2014, likely would have supported the SAG-AFTRA strike that’s currently immobilizing Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

Where roads are unpaved, it can be immobilizing.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

His knee was in an immobilizing brace when he came back to the Crimson Tide bench.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2022

An emotional heaviness pinned his limbs down into the hard mattress, immobilizing him.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young