paralysis
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Behavioral finance has long found that people get analysis paralysis after about 30 options.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
A U.S.-based chain of medbed operators called Tesla BioHealing has been flagged by federal regulators for claiming that its “Life Force Energy” treatments can cure stroke paralysis, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, and terminal cancer.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Roughly half of those who experience one are left with lasting problems such as paralysis or difficulty speaking.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
Certainly not because I was held back by the kind of moral paralysis that can mask as journalistic objectivity.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
ICBC, China's largest commercial lender by assets, was beginning to restore services as of Thursday afternoon, the newspaper said, citing people briefed on the ransomware attack, which paralyses computer systems unless a payment is made.
From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023
He says there are visible signs that the disease paralyses the sea urchin's spines and tiny feet.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2023
Sometimes these compounds act as deterrents: nicotine, for example, is produced by some plants and paralyses insects, whereas caffeine suppresses their appetite.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 24, 2020
Nothing proved more vividly the maxim that technology renders civilisation fragile than the great traffic paralyses of the late seventies.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2019
Severity paralyses Ernestine and makes her lose what little wits she possesses.
From Mentally Defective Children by Alfred Binet
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