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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

“At least not yet. We also had to immobilize his jaw so that the fracture would heal, so it’s wired shut.”

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026

“It immobilizes people; they’re stuck, because they just don’t know.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

Rb1 Nd6, and the beautifully placed Black knight immobilizes the proud White center and keeps the White rook from invading.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2021

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

He thrusts his hand out and immobilizes the trolls.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The document also addresses key European interests, including the need to use immobilized Russian central bank assets held in Europe to support Ukraine and its recovery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

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

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

For Burnett’s Norma, despite spending several episodes unconscious or immobilized in a bed or wheelchair, the character nevertheless is coiffed, made up and accessorized, often with a dazzling turban and earrings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

More so than the classes below and above them—the immobilized poor of old cities and rural backwaters, the factory-bound working class, and the old- and new-money rich—this is a fluid, unstable group.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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

The cars are not equipped with push-button ignitions and immobilizing anti-theft devices.

From Washington Times ● May 19, 2023

Ms. Yellen, a former central banker who initially had reservations about immobilizing the assets, said that while the concept was being studied, she believed that seizing the funds would violate U.S. law.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2022

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2022

I've seen her bring back people suffering from immobilizing sadness since.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins